Saturday, October 28, 2006
"The challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, not on the Iraq and terror issue...."
The Iraq war: a debacle all around. Even Bush knows and can't deny it any more.
Sen. Bill Frist's strategy for the GOP: stick our heads in the sand and pretend Iraq's not there. Or did he get those talking points straight from the top?
Too bad the economy might not cooperate with the GOP's new "ignore the war" election playbook.
So what about the war?
"Iraq and Afghanistan are perilously close to becoming failed states..." - that's a quote from the ultra-conservative Washington Times, not one of my usual lefty-liberal news sources saying that!! (related: here's a link from one of those lefty sources on the same story though - "Iraq moves closer to failed state territory.")
Government corruption there is MAD FLAGRANT while the violence is so bad now that the Iraqi government wants to limit the release of mortality data.
And the US military death toll so far in October is the worse monthly toll in a year, US generals even have to now admit that sh-t is F-CKED UP while active duty troops are now openly pressing Congress to end the U.S. presence in Iraq.
George "Flip-Flop" Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’.
And at the risk of setting Clyde off again, I ask the question: won't setting
The Iraqi PM's is trying to walk away from Bush. Who can blame him??
And we “cut & Run” from Afghanistan and let the terrorists take back over there for this mess?? (related: The NY Times' Elizabeth Rubin on why the Taliban have returned to Afghanistan.)
Well Iraq's a mess... except for some folks.
So yeah George, I would say you do "owe the American people an explanation." Understatement.of.the.year. WTF?
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