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(Piece of advice: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging).

As I said, you are a mountain of worthless slogans and platitudes.

You wouldn’t know victory because you are secure in defeat.

Now the white collared politicians and bureaucrats, called the Iraq Study Group, whose greatest qualification seems to be that they have an opinion, are likewise suggesting implementations that would further alienate Iraqis and add to the hard condit…..

Don’t sneer — it may be simple but it’s working. They hooked you, didn’t they? Or did you graduate with a peculiar penchant to claim failure in the face of victory?

If Bush is made of the stern stuff, he will reject most of the ISG (and there is strong evidence he already has) and we will continue with our efforts in Iraq and we will succeed.

Got it. Stay the course.

Describe “succeed”. I know that not even Bush still clings to the infantile notion that we are going to see democracy in bloom (where are Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney when you need them…) so we are ready to settle for what?

(Piece of advice: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging).

yours is typical of the “can’t do” mentality that is satisfied to substitute irrelevant platitudes for results. You are free to throw up your hands and surrender but the rest of us may not follow. I know I won’t.

The truth of the matter is Iraq is undergoing an incredible building boom right now — initially financed by us, it is now taking a life of its own.

Reason?

Most of Iraq is peaceful. Few terrorist incidents occur outside of Baghdad and the few other places where the insurgents and Al Qaeda types have concentrated.

The one thing going for the insurgents is the usefulness of US media in carrying their propaganda. They recognized this quite a while ago and correctly, too.

When blowing up GIs became more difficult and risky, the insurgents simply switched to blowing up other Iraqis. To their glee, they’ve found that they still get as much buck for the bang if they kill a dozen Iraqis out shopping for the dinner menu. The surrender monkeys in the US have fallen for this simple propaganda stunt (not to mention too many in Congress) and there we have it.

Don’t sneer — it may be simple but it’s working. They hooked you, didn’t they? Or did you graduate with a peculiar penchant to claim failure in the face of victory?

If Bush is made of the stern stuff, he will reject most of the ISG (and there is strong evidence he already has) and we will continue with our efforts in Iraq and we will succeed.

I know that prospect will send you into a deep depression so I offer something to cheer you up: Rep. Jefferson won reelection in Louisiana. See, don’t you feel better now?

100,000+ Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, and Airmen have made at least three trips, and aren’t allowed to do the job.

AZ_Redneck on December 9, 2006 at 3:02 AM

Ok Redneck, you’re in charge. You have the troops at your disposal.

What’s the plan?

But then, all he was trying to do was defeat the most powerful nation on earth. Not something hard like sticking it out a few more years during a boom economy and enduring the unending torture of astonishingly light casualties.

a4g on December 8, 2006 at 11:03 AM

Wake up and smell the coffee. We have been there 4 years. How ya think it’s going so far? The Shiite want to control the country, the Sunni don’t want them to. This is a centuries old conflict–”a few more years”–and what?

If you removed every outside fighter and all outside influence, you still have a civil war. Civil wars end when one side beats the other. Are we going to pick a side? Really?

You think the RW is pissed? Try seeing this from my side, the side who was against this invasion from the get go. All I got for my trouble was some slurs on my patriotism and rebukes to my doubts that worldwide, irrespective of culture and tradition and history, “people loooovvvveee freedom”.

And of course, now that the reality (and yes, that is the exact word for this situation) has become grimly obvious, the RW, especially the neo-cons who fathered this simple minded strategy, are in high dungeon. Huh? Baker’s past sins may be many and numerous. What’s the point of dwelling on that? Misdirection? Projection? Great.

This is so succinctly to the point it is difficult to praise it too much. Ever serious word you wrote here will come back to haunt a few who had the education and intelligence to know better. Why so many “don’t get it” is one of the most perplexing things to me in this era.

This piece should be required reading.

How sad so many will have to pay the price for the thoughtless pigheadedness of so few.

Arnold

As someone once sang “Will all the money you made ever buy back your soul?”

(Jimbo’s paymasters in Riyadh will have to answer that one.)

NBC Meet
The Press (Tim Russert)
Below are the topics and guests announced for
this program, along with my take on the “memes” that the show is trying to
push. With each guest’s name are a series of links that I found in a web search……

CBS Face The Nation
(Bob Schieffer)
Below are the topics and guests announced for
this program, along with my take on the “memes” that the show is trying to
push. With each guest’s name are a series of links that I found in a web search….

CNN Late
Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
Below are the topics and guests announced for
this program, along with my take on the “memes” that the show is trying to
push. With each guest’s name are a series of links that I found in a web search……

I already said pretty much all I have to say about the idiotic Baker-Hamilton commission before they even released their idiotic report…  and my opinion of their idiocy hasn’t really changed.  The only thing that has really changed is how….

Santorum is the realist.

“Out of touch” = Anyone who currently wants to win this thing.

According to our media overlords.

… Baker said that as secretary of State to President George H. W. Bush he made 15 trips there in the early 1990s, …”

Reality is …

James made 15 trips to the Middle East … and didn’t do the job..

100,000+ Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, and Airmen have made at least three trips, and aren’t allowed to do the job.

In order to be a Democrat you must posses the ability to hold two opposing thoughts on the same set of circumstances. The key to success is that you actually believe that you are right in both cases and can not see the stupidity of your acts. Additio…

The things that I’ve noticed with these ‘realists’ is that the only reality they see is very shallow. Rather than looking deep and understanding the causes and making plans for the long term, they just want to ‘negotiate’… A few bribes and concessions to the guy in charge today; and to hell with the longer term effects.

‘Realists’, as the term is being used, politically, now, are people who believe that putting a coat of paint on a crumbling, mortarless wall will fix everything, while studiously ignoring the flood waters that are undermining the entire foundation.

One of the key points in the whole Iraq Survey Group recommendations was the linking of the situation in Iraq to the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Good luck with that Baker on whatever planet you’re residing. No matter how he’d want to spin thing…

Thanks again B.

leavened by some of the most naive foreign policy thinking ever crafted by a blue ribbon commission,

Was that the Pabst commission? Because I’ve heard guys drunk out of their gourds that made as much sense as the Indeterminate Surrender Gang.