Such a simple, logical question, yet no one in the Pentagon press corps has ever asked it of Rumsfeld, who has touted the strength of the Iraqi security forces for a long time. But if U.S. troops go home, who would make sure that it was still our oil under their sand? Of course they can’t go home, ever. We still have troops in Germany and Korea fifty plus years after hostilities, and they don’t even have ‘our’ oil.

There was also a message in the SOTU to Iranians–we’re thinking of you, you need American-imposed freedom, you’re next.