Yes it's true, we are all abandoning the war effort. Anybody know how to join the Cindy Sheehan campaign?
Happens every time I disrobe.
I guess Katrina is fading from the bright white lite of the media's attention span. I guess they are bored and will now turn to other ways to screw the President.
If the GOP has any sense, they'd realize that that really loud noise they hear off in the distance is the sound of the Democrats clearing out their desks.
If the media had any sense they'd realize that sound THEY are hearing is their collective influence being flushed.
Music comes in many forms, does it not?
Dr. Bacevich is the author most recently of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002) and The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers.
Professor Bacevich served for seven years, from 1998 to the summer of 2005, as the Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University. In 2004, Dr. Bacevich was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has also been a fellow of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Dr. Bacevich has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Moncado Prize given by the Society for Military History and the Arter-Darby Military History Writing Award.
He'll be on CNN and pMSNBC tomorrow with a headline like that!
BINGO
IDIOTIC ARTICLE:
"Staunch supporters of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq have become more vocal with their concern over the way things are going."
NOPE. The ones who get the air-time are the ones who are NOT supporters. Most supporters see the progress made and support continuing until we win.
"Andrew Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran and professor of international relations at Boston University, said he sees a marked shift. "There are people who view themselves on the right, who were enthusiastic supporters of the war, who are now greatly concerned that the Bush administration or more in particular, the military, is losing its focus, its heart, and isn't fully committed," he told Fox News."
More hogwash. Why doesn't this article mention, even briefly the fact that we killed hundreds of terrorists in recent days, the fact that constitutional elections are scheduled, that the Iraqi army improves each day, etc.? There clearly is a commitment to win using a strategy of giving more responsibility for security to Iraqi forces as they are able to take it up.
"President Bush has said repeatedly there will be no exit timetable, but some of his supporters are saying the White House needs to be clearer about its strategy."
Another semantic bait-and-switch. No time-table because there is no plan to exit until the job is done, but a clear strategy of training the Iraqi security forces, establishing the legitimate democratic Government of Iraq, and rebuilding the country so Iraq is a free, sovereign, stable nation.
"Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, said Republicans have become more vocal about needing clarification on the war strategy and a better explanation to the American public."
A Liberal notes that some Republicans, seeing the media bias, want better PR campaign from the White House. I'm underwhelmed. The false implication is that there isn't a 'war strategy', which is a lie. There is one and it is executed every day.
"But Republican pollster David Winston cautioned against interpreting concern over war strategy as skittishness from the President's base and a lack of support for war overall. "There is still support for this war," Winston said. What people are looking for from the president, he said, are more specifics and measures for success."
This statement is a fair assessment. The Bush white house, gun-shy about making specific claims of success, due to the media ignoring those proven right and emphasizing nay claim that later founders, has fallen back to generalities and bromides. It's a pity. If the President were to announce what I've mentioned, that we killed a number of top terrorist leaders in Iraq in recent months, that the Iraqi army now has more battalions in active pursuit of terrorists than ever before ... that would mean something.
This article distorts lack of PR for a strategy into 'lack of strategy'. I hate media bias.
Nuts
I stand behind this war with all that is within me. Only those who are totally uniformed are not behind it. That is this lady's opinion anyway.
Why is this still even being called a "war?" It's not a war.
Humph. (Farrrr left wing guy)
If this guy feels he has to publicly spew this venom, that means Bush isn't doing so bad after all.
Ah, yes, we've all seen the light and will vote for the counterpart to Kerry in the GOP; That much acclaimed RINO Chuck Hagel.
What this article means is that they've finally recognized that Democrats and the Cindy S's of the world with the support of the press cannot defeat the war. What they have realized is what the Libs have realized on judges, the only way to defeat the war is to break the Republican base. Because the Democrats only power is limited to obstruction. They cannot end this war.
They tried to splinter the base over Roberts. Now they are going to actively try to encourage us to follow the RINO off the cliff. They can go to hell.
I don't back down for ANY damn RINO or Liberal agenda. The only thing the Republicans need to worry about is offending me to the point where I say they are of no use to me anymore. And that point arrives when they cannot be counted on even in the WOT, Judges and taxes. If the Reps turn tail and run on the WOT, I withdraw my vote, buy a gun, and defend myself here at home from the incoming terrorist threat because it's damned sure neither Rep or Dem would do it.
That's what they had better understand clearly. If I want a Liberal pacifist that hikes my taxes and promotes Ginsburg's and O'Connor's intentionally, I'd vote Democrat. I don't want that, so I vote Rep. Become a Democrat, lose your majority.
Even during WWII people were starting to get sick of the war towards the end.
And unrest war beginning to develop among the GI's from the European theatre when it appeared that they might be sent ot the Pacific.
Nuking Japan is very likely to have saved us problems here on the home front.
Weak Links Should Be Sawed Off And Replaced!
A nation that can't handle 2,000 military casualties after sustaining 3,000 civilian casualties won't be around very long.
The President has repeated a consistent, specific measurement for success, Simply put the message has been, "As Iraqis stand up, Americans will stand down.".
What people are looking at every evening is a co-ordinated effort by the liberals and their willing accomplices in the MSM to convince us, "Americans will never be able to stand down because Iraqi's will never be able to stand up.".
Every poll has the questions constructed to elicit polling numbers which reflect an ever increasing Bush is failing response. How many of the people who say they are not happy with Bush's handling of the war are not happy because they feel our military is not being allowed to simply pulverize the enemy before they cross the Syrian or Iranian borders? If this question were asked I think you would find the American people overwhelmingly support the war.
They should be. They know that no one will vote for pussies!
To Hell with those bastards! We are 4 years removed from 9-11 and all they think about are themselves.
Any RINO runs for President in 08-- I'm not voting, not like I would've really wanted to well........unless Hitlery is running then I'll have to hold my nose and pull the lever. I forgot about that B!t#h.
In order to suceed in Iraq, we must stop the "insurgents".
That means taking out Syria and taking out Iran.
But in both cases, we should simply destroy their military capacity and infrastructure - then, after we have wasted them, pull out.
Let the cry babies in the U.N. worry about reconstruction.