Now I won't be able to go shopping?

The White House (Tony Snow) says that if we leave Iraq now, no one can go shopping because

"To walk out of Iraq right now would plant a seed that ultimately would lead to destabilization there, hundreds of thousands of deaths, loss of our influence in the region, would create instability throughout the Middle East throughout East Asia, throughout Europe. And sooner or later it would come to our shores, to a shopping mall near you." !!

Amazing. Truly.
No more taking the kids to Hot Topic, soccer moms!
Of course, no one is suggesting that we "walk out of Iraq right now".
But his statement is still horseshit either way.

And don't forget the other horseshit that "Al-Qaida works to plant U.S. operatives".
How convenient.

Also, today Bush said that so far as the CIA leak case goes, "it's run its course. Now we're going to move on."
Well, thank you very much, Señor Bush.
I guess that might be true since you commuted the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, as it were.