Okay, we won! And ... okay, we lost! Now, let's get the hell outta the place!

It's a draw. We won the war! Hellfire, I believed that when I heard the President tell me that just after returning from combat in a jet plane onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln back in 2003. He was even wearing his flight jacket and scarf. And yes, we seem to also have lost a thing or two ... like favor with the Iraqi people and the rest of the world ... and almost 2,700 young Americans there -- not to mention more than a couple hundred thousand Iraqis -- since.

If Bush wants to help his party win seats in the November midterm elections, he should get Saddam out of that courtroom in Baghdad just long enough to sit across a table with him on the USS Abraham Lincoln and sign a formal surrender of Iraq ... and then immediately redeploy our forces out of Iraq. We could have the carrier anywhere Bush would want it in time to beat the November deadline.

He could even make it an historical photo-op ... sort of like the "mission Accomplished" banner photo-op ... except that this time it would be with a banner behind the two of them sitting at the table that reads, "Mission Over!"

But please. Mr. Bush: no flight jacket and grandstanding with a fighter jet this time. Too old hat! Get FDR's winter cape, top hat and lengthy cigarette holder out of the White House Museum and come rolling onto the deck fully attired and in FDR's old wheelchair that Cheney's been borrowing. That would get a laugh and set the stage exactly right.

The last I saw on the news this evening was that the number of Iraqis dying daily is at an all-time high and even one report that the Iraqi parliament is going to use some of that eight billion dollars we send them each month to dig a trench around Baghdad -- all around Baghdad!

It's sad that we will be leaving that billion dollar "Embassy" (22 buildings with everything from a swimming pool and fast food restaurants -- including a Starbucks -- to spas and SAM sites), but even that put money in the hands of the American contractors who contributed to the GOP in 2004 and are/were building it.

But surely, let's get out before the Iraqis build a friggen' trench around it!

No questions will be asked, Mr. Bush; no future president will blame you for not leaving the decision to him (or her) as you promised recently ... and the GOP will thank you for it after they win in November. And oh yes, dump Cheney and Rummy before November too and it will be a Republican landslide!

And we just might be able to refocus our forces, finances and fortitude away from Iraq's civil war and onto the real War on Terror!