Nine Months Later from Planck's Constant

From an email:

NINE MONTHS LATER

Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob.
They loaded up in Jack's minivan and headed north.

After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard.

They pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if they could spend the night.

"I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently widowed," she explained.

"I'm afraid neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house."

"Don't worry," Jack said. "We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light."

The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night.

Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way.

They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.

About nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an attorney.

It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend.

He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, "Bob, do you remember that good-looking widow from..... "Yes, I do."

"Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?"

"Yes," Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out. "I have to admit that I did."

"And did you happen to use my name instead of telling her your name?"

Bob's face turned red and he said, "Yeah, sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did. Why do you ask?"

"She just died and left me everything."

You thought the ending would be different, didn't you? Well, actually this is a lesson for Liberals. Based on previous Democratic Presidents' failed incursions in North Korea, Bay of Pigs, and Viet Nam they expect the same fate to befall our efforts in Iraq. In fact, they wish for the very same fate: if tomorrow it were announced that the US admits defeat and that we are running, tail between legs, from Iraq, Liberals would be in an inconsolable ecstasy.

But just as in the story above, things don't always end as you expect. For a very long time, the Media and the Left have been expecting utter defeat in Iraq. I also see utter defeat, but for the Democratic cowards in Congress in 2008.