Let's just declare 'a change in direction' and go home

By David Reinhard

A week after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and a week after Iraqi and U.S. forces exploited intelligence gained in the Zarqawi raid to capture or kill hundreds of terrorists, and a week after the Iraqi government was completed with the selection of the key defense, interior and national security posts, Rep. John Murtha hit the talk-show circuit to proclaim we need "a change in direction" in Iraq. Read on.