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By Matt Margolis | November 21, 2005
Well, I got a bunch of things to do in preparation for Thanksgiving. I’ll be going away, so you won’t hear from me for the rest of this week… I will say that it’s been an interesting past couple of days… House Democrats found themselves stuck on voting on a withdrawal from Iraq, voting overwhelmingly against it, delivering a nice victory for President Bush…
It’s nice to see the Republicans showing some cajones again…
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November 24th, 2005 at 3:13 am
Certainly it’s more of a victory for the Iraqis that Democrats chose not to leave them out in the cold, but still made their unrest known with the evil administration. Oh yes, Cheney, you bad man, you torture supporter.
November 27th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
It was political showboating. Murtha never called to “cut-and-run”, he called to begin a gradual withdrawal timetable in the future where troops would remain in neighboring countries. Republicans introduced the whole “cut-and-run” measure just themselves. Even Murtha voted against that. Now Bush is endorsing Senator Biden’s plan for withdrawal which he said he wouldn’t do a week ago claiming Biden’s plan was his own all along.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051127/pl_afp/usiraqtroops
Then the elected Iraqi leaders backed Murtha’s plan and said THEY wanted the troops out of Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5431131,00.html
The administration used the same strategy as the Social Security privatization disaster earlier this year–they didn’t acknowledge it.
Of course, we’ve been told troop levels will be lowered a few times before and they never are. And insulting three-fifths of the American public on Veteran’s Day didn’t help matters. That’s why none of this posturing is going to make the public reverse its opinion on the war.
My dentist, a 40-year old man who has been out of the Army since the late 1980s just got called for duty in Iraq. That sort of incident has far more impact on the public’s view of the war than any of Bush’s temper tantrums as of late.
November 28th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,81447,00.html
How soldiers see the war. Their successes and victories never reported by a press that hates GWB as much as Jay does. Hey - lets lose the war, whatever it takes to make Bush look bad!
November 29th, 2005 at 6:29 am
Better yet, let’s not have war at all! What is it good for, anyway? Oh yeah, contracts for Halliburton, better access to oil, etc. That’s what poor soldiers lives are for, right Kahn?
Wait, let’s not only NOT start a war, but let’s also not F it up later, ok? Bad intelligence, bad call on the WMDs and who would support us, bad use of personnel, and still you creampies blame the party that was powerless to this after 9/11? Crazy.
December 1st, 2005 at 11:12 pm
C’mon, Kahn, you know that’s not true. You’ve seen my posts on this blog for around two years now, and not ONCE have I ever said America should lose this war. You could hang out for a week at a university or listening to Air America or the Howard Stern Show or Daily Kos or Americablog and not one person would say that want America to lose. Make Bush look bad? He’s doing a damn good job of that himself.
I’ve got friends and neighbors who have been to Iraq and have gone back. They display more of a resignation than fired-up fervor. I’ve heard some plausible ideas when it comes to exit strategies–one is to allow areas that are peaceful to be taken over by Iraqi soldiers, embed American advisors with those units and start pulling out the US troops. But I didn’t hear Bush say that. All he gave was the same speech he’s been giving all year–the one where he mentions 9/11 two dozen times, the speech hits with a dull thud and then he drops another point in the polls.
I’ve been hearing that the liberal media does nothing but doom and gloom and ignores how everything is really peachy keen in Iraq for two-and-a-half years now. But if things really had all gone according to plan Syria and Iran would have been invaded by now, and Bush would have some new talking point to give. And he would be giving his speeches in front of civilians instead of soldiers in uniform under orders to keep quiet.