I was surprised to read this morning that the president said we weren't winning in Iraq. Maybe it's just time to take Iran to the woodshed because somewhere I read that 80% of the attacks in Iraq are carried out and/or funded by Iranians.
General Pace apparently said the same thing, the same week Gates took such fallout for saying it in Committee. I haven't seen where the President said it, but I've been on the missing climbers thread. I think it's in the context of, we're not losing or winning right now, we're just kind of hanging in there.
I don't think he means militarily.
We haven't lost any military engagements. I think he means the country is too unstable, too inept and ill-equipped in every way to begin to stand on its own feet and succeed, which is how the President has defined victory in Iraq.
Correcting paragraphing error...
"I don't think he means militarily.
We haven't lost any military engagements. I think he means the country is too unstable, too inept and ill-equipped in every way to begin to stand own its own feet and succeed, which is how the President has defined victory in Iraq."
I'm hoping that's a warning to the enemy that we're about to "get medieval on their..." behinds. :-)
With all due respect to the president, there is no reason to believe anything he says at all. His previous statements that "we're winning in Iraq" have been exposed as a complete fraud.
Nothing against him personally, mind you. It's just that governments lie to their citizenry with such boring regularity that it's amazing anyone would listen to them at all anymore.