It's the war, stupid

Commentators are suggesting that the economy will overshadow the war in Iraq in the State of the Union speech tonight. That's too bad, because the war is going better than the economy.
You can't really 'win' an economy, anyway, just make it better, and that's hard to do, given all the factors involved.
We are doing better in Iraq, now if people will only believe the news.

Rico was probably out of it when it happened, so he missed the video of the hanging of Saddam Hussein until it was on 60 Minutes last night. It's tacky to actually cheer someone's death, but Rico was tempted...