So, did I miss the blogsphere brigade attack on Safire for bashing "failuremongers" who claim that the Iraq occupation has been longer, more troublesome and more costly than anticipated, as a result of overly optimistic ans starry-eyed plans, the day after Dubya gave a speech admitting that the Iraq occupation has been longer, more troublesome and more costly than anticipated, and that his plans had been overly optimistic? Or am I just the last person to really care about the old Nixon shill?