Bush in Iraq

Labor Day, normally a slow news day, was enlivened by President Bush's visit to Iraq. By my estimation, this trip by Shrub was nothing more than a media event. It was Bubba's chance to assert that security had improved throughout Iraq, undoubtedly due to the "surge". Well, if the surge worked, why did it take 4 years or so to figure it out. What's wrong with the brainpower in the defense establishment, including the White House. Do we lay all the blame on Rumsfeld? Is that realistic? Was Rummie the only one with a brain, even though his doesn't appear to have worked that well. Of course, others in the Bush administration and the upper levels of the Pentagon had a shot at solving the Iraq problem, but none had, the surge to the contrary notwithstanding. So, here we are being told by Bush that the surge is working. Sounds like he knows what is in the report that General Petraeus is to deliver on September 11th. Wanna bet?