Bush’s point man for escalation plan resigns.
By on May 4th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Bush’s point man for escalation plan resigns.
J.D. Crouch, the deputy national security adviser whose office “was the nerve center for the Bush administration’s top-to-bottom review of war strategy that culminated with the president’s decision in January to send more troops to Iraq,” announced his resignation today, saying “it was time, for both him and his family, to leave the government for the private sector or academia.”
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Rat. Ship. Sink.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:24 pmUnlike many of our troops. at least Crouch gets out alive.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:26 pm“…it was time, for both him and his family, to leave the government for the private sector or academia.”
In other words!
I f#@ked up and it is time to bail and collect from war profiteers before I get a subpoena
May 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pmCutting and Running, probably to Claremont or some other institute of lower learning.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pmLet’s pretend that we care about our children and the future and keep this person out of academia.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pmcant wait for his book
May 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pmcrouch also said this…
really…? NEVER…? who woulda thunk it…?
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pmLightbulbs are coming on. Heh.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:31 pmMaybe his phone number is in the DC madam’s phone records? I guess we’ll see tonight on 20/20.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:32 pm“it was time.”
({[Mega-GOP--Transcombobulating-TruthFilter-9000©]})
“the strategy I was assigned to design – but was doomed from the start – has passed the final deadline of credibility for meeting original objectives and all further efforts in this area will only result in an avalanche of blame from both upper management and their political enemies, and if I want to salvage my career I’d better cash in what credits I still have, now.”
May 4th, 2007 at 12:32 pmThe
U.S.S.
Mission
Un=Accomplished
is
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sinking
Sink
in
May 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pmg.
“to leave the government for the private sector or academia”
What? He’s leaving and he doesn’t even know where he’s going yet?
Rats. Ship sinking. Buh-bye!
May 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pm.
“…the president never will be swayed by opposition to the war.”
“I will never give up my fantasy of winning a war with Iraq.” -GWB
May 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pmyou can run, but you cannot hide from what you did….
May 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pmLovely. Just Lovely.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:38 pmI’m waiting for this afternoon’s weekend crud dump. It’s always exiting to see what horrendous,terrible things the Bush administration releases on Friday afternoon, so it hits the “weekend news cycle”
May 4th, 2007 at 12:43 pmA MUST WATCH TO UNDERSTAND WHAT BUSH IS UP TO only lasts 1 minutes and leaves you so informed ……….
http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/
May 4th, 2007 at 12:45 pmOff topic :
with all the crap this admin is doing these are the latest CNN headlines :
SI.com: Cardinals pitcher drunk in fatal crash
Cop roughs up woman racing to dad in hospital
CNNMoney: Report: Microsoft wants Yahoo
Vegan parents slowly starved 6-week-old son
Rules bar dateless girl from her prom
Actor turns to print to stop genocide
Sixth-grader admits stabbing ducks with pencil
Paris Hilton hearing could lead to jail
Pinkett Smith: Holmes-Cruise rumors ‘ridiculous’
Wet woman says Hummer pushed her in river
Funny Lunch: Maria Bamford’s kicked out
May 4th, 2007 at 12:47 pmOh boy, the rats are jumping off this sinking ship pretty fast….could it be that tantrum bubble boy is a little testy these days?
Oh, and how is that surge working for ya?
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 4th, 2007 at 12:48 pmCNN-Crappy “News” Network
May 4th, 2007 at 12:49 pmThank you Tobey for the very informative video. This is something the Cow Towed Media would never cover.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:49 pmMeanwhile, back at the surge:
May 4th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Eh, he only got the job because I thought crotch was spelled crouch anyway. Hehhehe,hehe.
Hey Karl, ya gotta stop tellin’ me to do this stuff, I’m the commander person, ya know.
GWB
May 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pmMeanwhile :
back at Gitmo :
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Rove, Hadley, Powell, Perle, Wolfowitz were forced to read the Constitution and write a 1000 word essay : “What the Constitution Means to Me”
May 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pmRules bar dateless girl from her prom
Comment by Kay — May 4, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
So what’s you’re problem, Kay. This is so not cool, like ya know. Like if only dweebs are left to ask popular girls like us, giggle, then are we supposed to like just stay home. Oh my god, what are you, poor or something?
May 4th, 2007 at 12:57 pmThat rats are jumping gives the world a clear explanation of the status of the American Ship of State. We are SO Done here.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pmdid the Hummer get the woman wet?
May 4th, 2007 at 1:08 pmI bet the sucker is on the Madames prostitute call list.
Dimes to donuts!
May 4th, 2007 at 1:10 pmKay, so sorry, some girl named Paris ran in here and hijacked my computer for a few minutes. Now it’s covered with slime and some strange white dust. Yuck.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:29 pm“academia,” the last refuge of scoundrels and war criminels.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:39 pmI hope it’s not because Mr. Crouch’s name and number are in Ms. Palfrey’s extensive Rolodex.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:56 pmAcedamia if full of liberals, ha, ha.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:02 pmIn a similar vein(DC Madam)-fox NOISE this morning had as one of their talking points-”the DC Madam scandal: Is this story overblown? Should we beleive the hype?”
*snark* *snicker*
May 4th, 2007 at 2:07 pm“I hope it’s not because Mr. Crouch’s name and number are in Ms. Palfrey’s extensive Rolodex.”
My money’s riding w/ you, OutSourced.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:07 pmOk ,so let me get this straight. Now correct me if I’m wrong. The man with the escalation plan has an exit strategy. Anybody else find this extremely ironic.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:55 pm“Spend more time with my family” really means: “I need to tell my wife to forgive me, because I hired a whore to service my needs.”
May 4th, 2007 at 3:01 pm“Spend more time with my family” is pol-speak for “the shxt has or is about to hit the fan.”
May 4th, 2007 at 3:11 pmna na na na
na na na na
Hey, hey, hey,
GOODBYE!
May 4th, 2007 at 3:51 pmBlitzer is reporting this at this moment.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:03 pmAnother rat is abandoning the ship.
Except this one is one of the pack leaders.
They are losing key people every week.
Otherwise known as “cashing in.”
May 7th, 2007 at 9:51 am