The other night on Air America and also on Countdown with Keith Olberman Rachel Maddow said this:
Have you ever wondered what Bush and McCain mean when they say we are winning in Iraq? It doesn't make any sense because the reasons we went to war turned out to be not real. So saying we are winning is like saying the Yankees are winning because they have the most touchdowns. However, if you think we went to war for oil, then YES! Then we are winning.
She went on to talk about oakum's razor ("it's spelled Occam - thanks folks for showing me up as an idiot!" she said humbly as she cried into her dictionary.)
(One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.)
Or keep it simple stupid.
