Worn thin

Today, on the fourth anniversary of the start of the US invasion of Iraq, President Bush asked citizens to be patient. By any measure, Americans have been extremely patient -- to a fault, those of us who argued against the war would say.

The numbers are immense ... and depressing: hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead; more than 3,200 US soldiers killed, and 25,000 injured; more than a thousand contractors and other coalition forces killed; more than 2 million refugees; and many billions of dollars.

All this, and he wants patience, too?