Of course, he is defended by the pep squad boys and girls of the bullhorn media of the right, as if somehow he and Bush were the ones with the right answers about Iraq; as if the only relevant blood is on Obama's hands, even though it is Obama who inherited this war the way he inherited an economy from Bush and Cheney that put this country into a sinkhole. Through it all, he still sees himself as the voice of reason and patriotism in Iraq.