"Where is Bush going to turn to now? Where is his reliable source of information now Iraq is spinning out of control? He's frittered that away," McGovern said.
"And the profound indignity is that he probably doesn't even realise it."
Bush has frittered or is in the process of frittering away a lot of things. Unhappily he isn't the only one who doesn't even realize it. A lot of voters still believe that this Iraqi affair was either "necessary" for security or an "idealistic" attempt to replace Saddam with "democracy".