Kit Bond’s deceit.
By on Jul 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Kit Bond’s deceit.
Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) now claims that “we had the wrong plan for three years” in Iraq, and the current escalation is working. Glenn Greenwald writes, “That being the case, one would expect that Kit Bond spent the last three years protesting our war strategy, lamenting our lack of progress, and demanding that we change course. Needless to say, he did exactly the opposite.” Bond spent the last three years claiming the U.S. was winning in Iraq.
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a republican hypocrite? is there such a thing?
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 pmGlad he has come to his senses, doesn’t mean that he has been forgiven.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pmIf there are any unemployed chiropractors out there, head to Washington DC. With so many cases of republican political whiplash coming in the next year, it’s going to be a potential goldmine.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 pmSame way the he will eventually admit that the surge didn’t work either .
Same old, same old.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:26 pmEscalation is just causing a surge in deaths in Iraq > PERIOD.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:31 pmGuess the new Rover talking points have been put out. Too bad the sheeple that repeat them, can’t think for themselves. And this includes most of the repug candidates as well!!
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 pmI am from MO. I am a liberal. I am ashamed of Kit Bond. I will be glad when he comes home from the Beltway after he retires. Hopefully, the decent people from MO,(not the redneckstaters and redneck haters), can send someone to represent us in the Senate, along with Senator Claire McCaskill, who can affect a progressive change in domestic and foreign policy. Christopher Bond should just shut up.
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pmJanuary 22, 2008, is one Freidman Unit from today. “Kit” (snicker) will have another pathetic excuse on der mission then. Please make a note of it, Earthlings.
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July 22nd, 2007 at 5:49 pmLike #7, I am from the *formerly* great state of MO.
In the 5 years I have lived here, Kit Bond, Kit Bonds family, the governor, and Shrub have pushed through every Repub think-tank idea (even the ones the think-tank rejected).
It is laughable that Kit has done anything to distance himself from his siamese twins.
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:36 pmBut we are still winning in Iraq, we just have adifferent plan now… ah hahahahahahahahaha
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:19 pmYet, at the same time, he says Congressman Bayh (sitting next to him) was “right” two years ago when he claimed that we needed to give President Bush’s strategy “more time”.
Wouldn’t that be the same strategy you JUST said was “wrong” for the past three years?
Arguing logic with a Conservative is like discussing Mall Overcrowding with the Amish.
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:17 pmSurprise, surprise. Kit Bond has a letter published today on the opinion page of the NY Times. He mouths the usual Bushie lines about fighting them over there protects us from fighting them here. If we abandon Iraq now Al Qaeda will establish a safe have there, and on and on. Who is paying this man? Could somebody please find out? Could any reporter at any broadcast network (or for that matter the NY Times) actually ask a few questions? Of course not. The war profiteering must go on indefinitely, no matter what the “mythical little guy” wants (see TX Sen. John Cornyn, 1-25-06 re: Alito).
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:32 pmWe in MO have had to live with this bought and sold republican for way too many terms now. He’s a self righteous authoritarian type who follows the republican line all the way. He is noted as one of the most corrupt crony partisan types who has been in office far too long to do anything else but be bribed by the GOP to follow party orders. If he acts in anyway different it is because he fears losing his seat. Mo has a reputation of swallowing his republican party lies because he’s convinced many it’s profitable to them to do so. They are finding out differently these days. Missourians are starting to open their eyes to Bond’s hypocrisy and his reputation for being bought and sold to the highest bidders. Well past time for a change as our economy grinds to a halt and his real record on the war and veterans healthcare becomes public. H is one of the main republican obstructionists in the Senate supporting the filibuster to prevent members from even being able to vote on the important issues to govern our country. He believes in preventing any legislation from being voted on just to make the other party look bad with no concern for the good of the country.
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 amThose of us here in the Show Me State understand what has taken place.
Kit Bond has changed his brand of scotch and now sees tghings from a completely different perspective.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 amPlease note that I am not a fan of Bond, a rich right wing Bush supporter, etc.
Nevertheless, please note also that Bond is one of the VERY VERY FEW in congress who have an immediate family member in uniform. Bond has never played this serious information to his advantage and I respect him for this.
I think Bond was mislead along with so many others by the criminals in the executive branch. He needed to turn around earlier, yes.
Doc Lee
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:51 amBond is correct. The plan for Iraq was based on a force on force scenario, which disappeared after Saddam’s RG was routed. Remember, this victory over the RG didn’t take that long. The Generals were all “gun slingers” who wanted to fight eyeball to eyeball and try out their new toys. But there was a problem with that thinking. The other side resorted to hide and seek tactics. AND, if military forces chased someone into a home or neighborhood, then civilians were killed and the Communist News Network reports that ALL OUR soldiers are baby killers, rapists, and thugs, and this is backed up by Senators like Kerry and others.
Bond’s turn around might be real and based on a newly found wartime religion, but I’d bet the little sucker is playing yet another political card.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 am#15 — Doc Lee — don’t know about Bond’s family member being in uniform. But, there are other Congressional members — Senator Webb’s son just returned from Iraq (USMC) and in the House, Congressman Patrick Murphy is an Iraq combat vet (82d Airborne, US Army). Also, there are more members of the Democratic Party who have served our country — Kerry, Jack Reed, John Murtha, Joe Sistak to name but a few who have honorably served this country. By honorable service — I mean actually completed their full term of service — not turning tail and running out on the Guard or Reserve — as did Bush — nor by obtaining deferment upon deferment — as did Cheny and many of the other “chickenhawks” who tend to be primarily from the Republican Party.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:20 am#16 — Duke — it helps to also keep in mind that the Iraqi Republican Guard was pretty much a non-entity in Gulf One. Since Iraq had been under intensive monitoring and scrutiny in the years following Gulf One, it’s not really surprising they were pretty much a non-entity in the War on Iraq.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 amCorrect Helen – however in GWI, the military was planning on massive casualties, mostly from WMD, which as we know didn’t materialize. The RG was then routed on the road back to Baghdad. Had Colin Powell not issued his ill advised recommendation to Bush 41, then we wouldn’t have had to worry about GWII. Swartzkopf was absolutely miffed that Colin Powell advised CINC Bush 41 that the “U.S. looked bad destroying all of Saddam’s tanks and vehicles along the road back to Iraq from Kuwait and the picture of all those poor RG soldiers toasted along that highway was not garnering favor from the rest of the world.”
You’re correct, the RG was not expected to mount much of a defense against our forces in GWII, thus when they were taken out early, the “gun slingers” were all giving each other high fives at yet another war won in less than a few days, something Americans had come to expect.
Unfortunately, the enemy read the book and began to mount attacks against our forces that soldiers had not trained for nor had leaders expected. Thus, we are now mired in a “quick sand” kind of battle where as each day goes by, we sink deeper and deeper.
I’m still not certain Bond is for real or whether he’s just hit a lucky streak, and still probably doesn’t even know what he has said, or whether it’s Washington politics as usual.
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 am#19 — Duke — Thanks for the additional detail — you are quite correct that a big concern during GW1 was the possiblity of WMD being used. But, remembering that brings up another point — knowing that that turned out to not be the case 10 years earlier, then does it make sense that Shrub would have touted the existence of WMD? Funny, seems every time one point is cleared up it triggers new questions.
Frankly, I had always been under the assumption that an element of Operational Planning is that you always assume forces will be in a dirty battlefield AO.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pmDuke*** Never did CNN ever say or suggest that ALL OUR SOLDIERS are rapists and baby killers. Where the hell did that come from. However there is a video of SOME ONE soldier raping a 14y/o Iraqi girl after her family had been killed by our forces but this does not make all troops as rapists. Also you act like the hide and fight tactics are the result of the RG when it is coming from a number of sources including Sunni insurgents who resent the Occupation. Senators like Kerry are heroes who deserve respect rather than smears over things they never said. Your comment was just that …a smear without credibility.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:54 pmThe US had no plan for the occupation of Iraq and at one point had all the RG’s generals asking to be part of the reconstruction of Iraq, to be led by US commanders and Rumsfeld blew them off. All that is going on now in Iraq could have been prevented easily but was totally mismanaged by Bush and his supporters. Bond was one of the loudest voices supporting these mistakes denouncing anyone who dared question the president’s policies. Now he is saying “Everything I insisted had to be done for the last 4yrs was totally wrong but now I know what to do and I insist that you believe in the policy the president is now doing.” The above commenter was absolutely right about the “scotch”. Bonds “thinking” is fed to him via the WH. He’s not had a change of mind, he’s merely trying to find ways to justify his failed policy supporting. Yet here he stands as one of the main Senate obstructionists preventing any legislation from even coming up for a vote because it would change Iraq policy. No matter what the majority of the American People want Bond will prevent it even being voted on because he will obstruct any legislation coming out of a democratic congress. He remains a pathetic hypocrite for the Bush WH.