Posted on 07/30/2007 1:24:37 PM PDT by r-q-tek86
While I appreciate your positive outlook, and I am a patient man, there is no reason in hell that 4 years into this thing we are just getting around to ‘securing Baghdad’. That should have been done just about immediately... within 6 months of going in. I hope Iraq is our ally in the future but frankly we were much too polite going into this thing.
Marching orders from the DNC and Clinton campaign following their recent debates. Manipulation pure and simple.
“Get off the administration’s back. We have a great economy and we feel generally safe. Can the man get no credit at all?”
I give GWB credit for reducing taxes and going into both Iraq and Ashcanistan. But I fault him for not using sufficient force, which has delayed the success we see today. So to that extent I will *not* get off their backs.
Don't worry. The stories are already written, just in case. /s
The motive is to back Hillary since she is the only “hawk” among the Ds.
If we had a larger ‘footprint’ during the occupation then every Iraqi would would have sided against us.
Why are you bringing this donk talking point up anyway? The surge is working.
(hillary’s back room talk with New York Times}
“I want to thank all of you for demonizing the Bush Administration in the past but I’m going to start campaigning in a new direction and that is talking more positive about the war on terror. We have to appear on the right side of this issue before the election, so I want you to take the lead and start reporting positive results.
I have talked with ranking members of my party and they agree they will also start talking positive about Iraq and if we keep talking long enough and frequently enough it will appear to the general public, we have always been the party on the right side of this issue.
We have a good full year to spread this propaganda and as, you know, it works. Before the year is out, we will have everyone believing we always were the backers of this war, just as we did with wefare reform, we’ll take the credit.
Thank you all and you are dismissed.
Just as if they were with us all along!
Liberals looked long and hard and realized they didn’t want to give birth to a loss - one that would mark them for decades. They’re nothing if not manipulative.
It will be interesting to see, if success continues, if the Dems can spin victory to their favor. They are so far out on a limb being against this war I don’t see it happening. Hillary might come out good, but no one else will. But then again that may be the point.
I wonder what their ulterior motive is................
Has to be one, since the very thought of even a smattering of intellectual honesty creeping into this rag would send Hillary & friends into (much needed) therapy.
Does the NYT not understand all the talk and demands of a pullout, if successful, would cause a massacre that could not be “Bush’s fault”?
You know... it’s the funniest thing; I looked EVERYWHERE at the DU site and found absolutely NO mention of this story..... I’m shocked!
“We should maintain a strong presence in Iraq.”
We will.
Probably was the recent polling that showed support for the initial invasion had actually risen substantially amongst Americans. That was a shocker for the 'cut and run' MSM crowd. The plain fact of the matter is, no one wants to make the situation in the 'Oil Rich' Middle East any worse then it currently is. Pulling out all our troops is guaranteed to do just that. It is the one strategy that WILL fail.
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Don’t tell Reid and Pelosi good news in Iraq ping.
Hillary Clinton is very mean, very rude, very phony, very annoying to hear and watch and very uncharismatic. No person with these destructive character qualities will be elected President of the United States, and neither Hillary Clinton nor the media can do anything about it.
Since it's the New York Slimes we're dealing with here, the first question we should ask is which side is "we" to them.
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