The death of irony

The cleverness of the Bush administration in deflecting criticism knows no bounds. By now everyone is used to the satire-defying trickery of Karl Rove, by which all jokes are made moot by actually doing or saying the most humorously ridiculous thing possible.

They may have found a way to head off all comparisons of the Iraq war to Vietnam - just use the same damn strategy as was used by Nixon:

...the war is not going to slow down. We're going to increase the pace of air operations. There's going to be more bombing in direct support of Iraqi units now.

The thing is, nobody sounds funny when repeating facts. The Iraq=vietnam jab doesn't work comically if it's actually 100 percent true.