Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The fellow on the left will be cropped on Fox
Ed Zurga/Bloomberg News in the New York Times.
How dare he get so close to Our Dear Embattled Leader and not clap riotously. After all , Dear Leader had just compared Iraq and Viet Nam for the purpose of blaming the Democrats for losing His Glorious Little War. What more could the VFW ask for? Unfortunately for ODEL, that gentleman's reaction appears to be the norm amongst people quoted by the AP for their reactions.
"The president's surge was supposed to create the political space for national reconciliation. Instead the politics have reached total gridlock, while the security situation remains essentially unchanged. By the President's own measures the surge has failed." - Ilan Goldenberg, policy director of National Security Network in Washington.Not very well received at all. However, just to make sure you were listening, he also flip flopped on his support for Maliki of Iraq. Now he likes him. Let it never be said that Our Dear Leader doesn't know how to make news, He just doesn't know how to make sense.
"The speech was an act of desperation to scare the American people into staying the course in Iraq. He's distorted the facts, painting all of the people in Iraq as being on the same side which is simply not the case. Iraq is a religious civil war." - Lawrence Korb, assistant defense secretary under President Reagan and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington.
"Bush is cherry-picking history to support his case for staying the course. What I learned in Vietnam is that U.S. forces could not conduct a counterinsurgency operation. The longer we stay there, the worse it's going to get." - Ret. Army Brig. Gen. John Johns, a counterinsurgency expert who served in Vietnam.
"The president emphasized the violence in the wake of American withdrawal from Vietnam. But this happened because the United States left too late, not too early. It was the expansion of the war that opened the door to Pol Pot and the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. The longer you stay the worse it gets." - Steven Simon, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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