G.I. Joe

Here's how well things are going in Iraq: More than four years after "Mission Accomplished" and two years after "last throes," politicians still can't announce their visits to Iraq in advance.

Nevertheless, the war's supporters like to go there to "prove" how much the security situation in Iraq has improved (the irony that they don't dare announce their visits in advance notwithstanding), and invariably the photo-op doesn't go so well:

Somewhere, Michael Dukakis is chuckling.