Posted on 03/27/2007 9:22:53 AM PDT by bnelson44
In one of the more unusual proposals to emerge in the Senate debate on Iraq withdrawal, Sen. Mark Pryor wants to keep any plans for bringing troops home a secret.
The Arkansas Democrat is a key holdout on his party's proposal to approve $122 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while setting a goal of March 31, 2008, for winding up military operations in Iraq. Unlike the plan's Republican opponents, Pryor wants a withdrawal deadline of some kind. He just doesn't want anyone outside the White House, Congress and the Iraqi government to know what it is.
"My strong preference would be to have a classified plan and a classified timetable that should be shared with Congress," Pryor said yesterday. A public deadline would tip off the enemy, "who might just bide their time and wait for us to leave," he said. "Then you'd have chaos and mayhem and instability."
Pryor said a classified plan would be provided by the president, shepherded by Senate committees and ultimately shared with Congress and Iraqi leaders. He is confident that the plan would remain secret, because Congress is entrusted with secrets "all the time."
What if the president's withdrawal plan didn't include a deadline? Or what if it leaked, through leaders in Iraq, to insurgents?
All worth considering, Pryor said. But in the meantime, "at least you'd have a plan."
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Excellent observation!!
Now that Mark Dayton has retired, Pryor has an excellent shot at being voted the dumbest senator with a penis.
Is this what he is trying for? Does he actually think such a "secret" wouldn't be splashed on the front page of the New York Slimes or Washington ComPost within 24 hours?
Yeah, Leakey Leahey would tip off AQ and the Gang'
LoL.. Yeah like thats gonna happen..
With Leaky Leahy and Rockefeller having access to the information?
Very funny!
Anything shared with Congress will stay classified until roughly 5 o'clock. Or whenever the Big Three pollute the airwaves with their "Nightly News" in your town.
A secret would last about as long as it took leaky Leahy to dial his cell phone.
These liberal clowns are so worried about their precious political careers. They're just so anxious and perturbed by criticism from their liberal base about Iraq. There isn't a single leader left in the Democrat party, and none of them have the backbone to take any political heat. They are self-focused children, anxious about themselves and their trivial political careers. If we surrender in Iraq, the diplomatic and strategic consequences will be terrible and lasting. We would lose credibility in all our foreign policy negotiations all over the world. My suggestion to the anxious congressional Dems is this: if you are too childish and you don't have the backbone to take some heat while you're in congress, then resign and start a new career in the private sector.
I wouldn't trust the dems. One of them would "leak" this to the NYTimes.
It would be in the washington post front page the next morning.
A double secret probation withdrawal date.
Just don't tell Leaky Leahy.
SHHH-HHH Don't tell the NY Times!
He's got a secret! A tisket a tasket!
These people are deranged!
LOL!!!! With Rockefeller around, there are no secrets.
The democrats specialize in "secret plans", don't they?
And we all know how good the Democrats are at keeping secrets.
The Dems would just leak the date anyway.
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