O’Connor on Iraq

“It is a dire situation … I don’t think it has gotten any better. It just breaks your heart. . . . Iraqi people are dying, American soldiers are dying. So far it does not seem we have achieved any kind of security there.”

-Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a member of the Iraq Study Group, commenting on Iraq in a front-page WaPo story today by the incomparable Bob Woodward.

The compassion coursing through this comment is reflective of the traits that made Her Honor such an outstanding member of the land’s highest court, and such a bitter disappointment to the neocons. Too bad she never ran for office. I would have voted for her.

[Cross-posted at Central Sanity.]