Mixed Message on Timetables
By on Jun 28th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
Mixed Message on Timetables
Bush: “Setting an artificial timetable would send the wrong message to the Iraqis — who need to know that America will not leave before the job is done. It would send the wrong message to our troops — who need to know that we are serious about completing the mission they are risking their lives to achieve. And it would send the wrong message to the enemy — who would know that all they have to do is to wait us out.”
Fact: Then-Gov. Bush: “I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.” [Seattle Post Intelligencer, 6/5/99]
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Duh! The Iraqi Resistance knows they can outwait us in any case. They do live there, and we don't. The longer we stay the more Iraqis support them hoping to get rid of us.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:04 pmSpeaking of timetables...here's an interesting comparison..
Sept. 11, 2001 - Attacked by Al Quaida, 3000 dead (no, Georgie..Saddam didn't do it...AL QUAIDA...can you spell Osama?)
Dec. 7, 1941 - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, 2400 dead (no Georgie...Saddam didn't do that one either...)
June 28, 2005 - King Georgie gives the same speech he's given before..."We're makin' progress"..."It's hard work"..."We're in Iraq because they attacked us on 9/11"(uh...no).
Meanwhile, the Taliban shoots down one of our Chinooks in Afghanistan, A Shiite legislator is assassinated in Baghdad, and our Marines start yet another offensive in western Iraq to try to quell an unending insurgency...
By Aug 14th, 1945 - Somehow, without the neocons, we were able to (with an actual coalition, of course) defeat two countries that were considered world powers at the time.
In less time than we've been in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight, we were able to defeat Germany and Japan, after having to rebuild our armed forces, no less. Yeah, George, I think it's time to start working on an exit strategy...
June 28th, 2005 at 10:02 pmNice layout CSP. Astonishing.
June 28th, 2005 at 10:23 pmAug 14th, 1945 - Somehow, without the neocons
your total lack of knowledge about history is frightening. roosevelt knew the japanese would attack in the pacific, but he thought it would be at wake. as a matter of fact, during the 1944 campaign, dewey, a republican found out roosevelt knew this, and thought about using this information. gen. marshal told him it would let the japanese know we had broken their naval code, causing them to change it, prolonging the war and costing more lives. dewey understood, and today is nothing more than a footnote to history, never having been president. you see unlike dhimmicrats, dewey put the country before his own career. we won ww2 because we were fighting the war together, republicans didnt go crying foul when we invaded n. africa. bitch and moan at every set back, and there were many! "africa didnt attack us roosevelt" was not their chant, it was "remember pearl harbor!" you do not grasp the gwot. the thought it was dhimmicrats who won ww2 all by themselves is laughable. for the love of god, go buy a book without chomsky written on the cover!
June 28th, 2005 at 11:53 pmFrom the Pearl Harbor Inquiry:
"The committee has been intrigued throughout the Pearl Harbor proceedings by one enigmatical and paramount question: 'Why, with some of the finest intelligence available in our history, with the almost certain knowledge that war was at hand, with plans that contemplated the precise type of attack that was executed by Japan on the morning of December 7 -- why was it possible for a Pearl Harbor to occur?' " the final report asked."
The committee's report told a tale of complacency, poor communications between government agencies and officials' stubborn refusal to contemplate the seemingly impossible, even though an attack on Pearl Harbor had been the subject of military war games.
Your grasp of history is about as good as your grasp of typing. And you've missed the point, as well. I find it intriguing that Rumsfeld is talking about a war of "5, 6, 8, 10, even 12 years", with no mention, even, of Afghanistan, and yet we (meaning America and it's allies,ie. a "coalition") could defeat two powers like Japan and Germany within almost the same period of time. It had nothing to do with democrats or repubs (besides, Bush is no republican. And real republicans are aware of this...)
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