The suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an American mess tent in Mosul this week probably wore an Iraqi military uniform and made it through a screening process for new Iraqi troops that, in this case, was “likely not satisfactory,” the American military commander in northern Iraq said Thursday.

—NY Times Article on Dec. 21 Bombing

First off, it is highly doubtful that the bomber was just “wearing” an Iraqi uniform–it probably was an Iraqi soldier. In light of that, think about what Bush was commenting on the day before:

…first of all, recruiting is strong. The place where the generals told me that we need to do better is to make sure that there is a command structure that connects the soldier to the strategy in a better way, I guess is the best way to describe it. In other words, they’ve got some generals in place and they’ve got foot soldiers in place. But the whole command structure necessary to have a viable military is not in place, and so they’re going to spend a lot of time and effort on achieving that objective.

And so the American people are taking a look at Iraq and wondering whether the Iraqis are eventually going to be able to fight off these bombers and killers. And our objective is to give them the tools and the training necessary to do so.

–President Bush, Dec. 20 Press Conference

So where do you think the confidence of the American people in the Iraqi soldiers we’re recruiting in the hope of “fighting off” these bombers when the soldiers themselves are becoming bombers? And when we are giving them access to U.S. bases (including Iraqi workers going about these areas unescorted), allowing them to walk straight up to our troops?

This is along the lines of what I discussed earlier: the way Bush is running things, we will never be able to trust them and they will never be able to trust us. And in the end, that’s going to be the thing that brings it all down.