Remember all those elections that were suppose to turn things around?
Isn't the military saying that the only way to win this is diplomatically and that the military can only provide the supporting role?
Where's the diplomacy?
Crying "Good News" has become the equivalent of "The Sky is Falling" for the Republicans.
Who is going to listen to you? You've cried wolf so many times on "Good News", where's the credibility?
I keep telling you people you have to give respect to get it. Republicans have no respect for the Public. They tell them what they want the public to believe.
If I had failed as many times at my paying job as has the Bush Administration I'd a been fired five times over. And then if I perchance were not fired and had done something right, would anybody care?
This war has cost the tax payers 1/2 trillion dollars, 1,000's of American lives, and a total collapse of our diplomatic standing in the world.
Even if the best possible scenario happens do you really think the American people are going to go, "Yeah, that 1/2 trillion dollars were worth it."
The public has yet to build up a head of steam with respect to the abuse of this war.
Republicans will be living down this debacle for years to come.
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caused heads to turn... Especially in the halls of those forest-guzzling dinosaurs in MSM... |
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as bad as most of the MSM had tagged it. Now it appears it is going so well they have to admit it - not in the news, but as a guest op-ed piece - I am not giving them a pass on this yet. This is news and not just opinion - these are observations based on being there - it should have been a front page report, not an op-ed.
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Nice shot! :-)
While we lost more lives in a couple weeks at Kasserine Pass than we've lost in BOTH Iraq wars, Lefty knows victory for us over there means disaster for Lefty.
In spite of all the blather, that is all he is really concerned about. |
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such bitterness.
Why, Roosevelt should've been shot for being President when Pearl Harbor was bombed & the Philipines were lost & our guys were sent on the Bataan Death March & Kasserine Pass & .....
Try this:
Stand up; turn 180 degrees; open your eyes - the future's that-a-way, and the future is what matters.
Petraeus is winning this fight - and he's pursuing the only strategy being bandied about which has a prayer of winning this fight.
You'll eventually learn there's no majority out there for a U.S. defeat in Iraq. |
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...had it been written by actual critics of the Iraq invasion who had been opposed to it or had a track record of correct reporting and predictions that would lend them credibility. That is not the case, but hopefully they are right this time. |
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...I'm confused.
I was told the war is lost.
Now I hear the Surge is working....?!?!?
Who am I supposed to believe??? (sarc/off) |
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...editorial page and already the lefties above are grousing,down-talking and sternly finger wagging.
True to form. They never disappoint. |
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We can remember we just choose to look forward and find a plan that does work instead of the Dimbulbocrats plan of retreat and surrender. Man if you guys had run the war in WW II( thank god dimocrats stood for something then) we would have just stayed at home.
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How about the Brookings Instition? Then again, remember that John Burns also writes for the NYT.
The point is many of us have been saying give the surge a chance before you pull the plug. Now some critics are saying--wait a second, it may actually be working. That is a good thing, because you can take it as confirmation that progress is being made.
Iraq is a mess, but it could be far far worse than it currently is. The Petraeus plan is making things better.
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Funny, how they NYT is trusted on this?
While I personally do not watch TV, I'm sure Fox News has been reporting this as well?
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Is it not clear now that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s has no intention of sharing power with the Sunnis? Do we have any choice but to recognize each group separately and stop pushing a strong federal government?
AP-A key aide says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s relations with Gen. David Petraeus are so poor the Iraqi leader may ask Washington to withdraw the overall U.S. commander from his Baghdad post.
Iraq’s foreign minister calls the relationship “difficult.” Petraeus, who says their ties are “very good,” acknowledges expressing his “full range of emotions” at times with al-Maliki. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who meets with both at least weekly, concedes “sometimes there are sporty exchanges.”
It seems less a clash of personality than of policy. The Shiite Muslim prime minister has reacted most sharply to the American general’s tactic of enlisting Sunni militants, presumably including past killers of Iraqi Shiites, as allies in the fight against al-Qaida here.
READ MORE
http://controlcongress.com/uncategorized/heat-rises-between-iraq-pm-and-petraeus
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