My favorite Letter to the Editor today:

"Take constitutional democracy, the most insanely complicated form of government in history, with all its mountains of paperwork and bewildering bureaucracy, wrap it up and ship it to Iraq. In more than 200 years, even we haven't made it work smoothly. What in blazes makes anyone think the Iraqis can do it any faster? These unreachable "benchmarks" are only an excuse to keep our troops there."