Watching President Bush deliver his promised veto of the Iraq supplemental funding bill yesterday was akin to a bad game of Mad Libs. The President predictably demonstrated his resolve by filling-in the blanks in his speech by resorting to his repertoire of worn-out Iraq talking points, such as "surrender date" and "handcuffing the generals."
Now you can play Bush Iraq Mad Libs at home. Laugh for hours with family and friends as you construct your own after-the-fact bogus war rationale, demonize Democrats, point to imaginary Saddam links to 9/11 and Al Qaeda and more. Simply fill in the blanks by choosing from the RNC-approved list of Iraq Talking Points.
By combining, say a (Discredited Claim of Saddam's WMD) with a (Veiled Assertion of Democratic Treason), a (Profound Misreading of the Enemy) and a (Cynical Effort to Use the Troops for Cover), you can create your own side-splitting statement of commitment to the war without end in Iraq. For example:

"Saddam was an ally of Qaeda" who sought "uranium in Africa" to build "weapons of mass destruction." He was a "grave and gathering threat" whose "smoking gun could take the form of a mushroom cloud." We were to be "greeted as liberators" by the Iraqi people whose "purple fingers" showed that "freedom is God's gift to humanity."
But now the Democrat Congress supports a "surrender date" and is "waving a white flag" to "embolden the enemy." Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are trying to "micromanage the war." How can Democrats "confirm General Petraeus but oppose his mission?" If they have their way, Iraq will descend into a "cauldron of chaos" and the insurgents will "follow us home."

There is, of course, nothing funny about the war in Iraq. It's just too bad President Bush insists on treating tragedy like a game.