“We’re deploying at unsustainable rates,” General Casey said three weeks ago during remarks to an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The Army agreed to a buildup of troops a year ago with the understanding that it was temporary, he said. “We can’t sustain that. We have to come off of that, and we’re working that very hard.”
In fact, Casey is not alone. Lubold also wrote:
While there is reasonable consensus that a significant drawdown must occur to relieve the Army – from Gates to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the service chiefs and many combatant commanders – Petraeus may not see things the same way. An expert in counterinsurgency, Petraeus believes such campaigns can last a decade or more if done right. While he is mindful of the strains on the force, he is considered to be more focused on maintaining the security momentum there, analysts say.
So what did media stars Tim Russert and Brian Williams do? Nothing. They did a fair impression of a bobble head doll. Each happily nodding along as McCain spun his fantasy. Not one person tonight dared challenge John McCain on this point–something that was demonstrably false–even in the post-debate wrap up. Although McCain was a brave Navy pilot, it is equally clear he is now an addled old man who lacks the mental acuity to be a competent President. But with our “crack” TV media stars on patrol, they’ll just humor him and let him skate until he actually gets the job and can do some real damage. And at that point the joke will be on us. Thank God (irony intended) for the Christian Science Monitor. Too bad more folks don’t read it. Perhaps McCain might like a subscription.
The Center for Public Integrity published a report on 935 lies the Bush gang told to get us into Iraq.
They need to do a report on McCain's
rewriting his history in the Senate, especially his record on Iraq.
January 25, 2008 6:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have a humble question:
Considering that we have been at war for 5 years, why did it take that long to tabulate the lies?
Should we wait for them to report on McCain's lies for his second presidential term?
Why does it take so long? Wht the hell is the problem? Bush's lies were known long before the last election. Why did they wait until last WEEK to bring this up?
Thanks, but no thanks
Jan
January 27, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
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With or without the list from the Center for Public Integrity, just as long as you know leaves me with a feeling that many others also know.
And I bet the majority of those who do know that those who in congress are also aiding and abetting by not bringing an impeachment investigation to the table are as gutless as the seven (7) big liars on that list.
I could be wrong... But I doubt it, seriously.
~OGD~
January 27, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was disappointed in the Times editorial endorsing McCain today (Friday). It preferred him to Romney, because one does not know where Romney stands. I'm afraid one does know where McCain stands, and it's with the worst lies of the Bush administration on critical issues of tax cuts and war. As for hypocrisy, he's also running as the independent.
John
http://www.haberarts.com/
January 25, 2008 7:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mark Kimmitt, the deputy Secretary of Defense who said at the Heritage Foundation of a couple of weeks ago that there was about a 30% chance the 'surge' could succeed long term, and said failure in Iraq was still more likely than not, is also a retired General.
January 25, 2008 8:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
As a victim/veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-1972) I have this to say about the Republican Senator from Arizona who has spent more decades learning nothing about war than any man I've ever had the misfortune to overhear trying unsuccessfully to talk and not bite his tongue at the same time.
"Mad Dog John McCain Bombs Again!"
Get a life, John McCain: Now. Tonight.
We're so sick of you and all your slogans trite
Face it: you lost back in 'Nam
So you'll never sell your scam
That if given one more chance you'll do it right
You couldn't fly a plane to save your ass
Now you want to peddle jokes of bombing crass
Seems your time spent in the clink
Never caused you much to think
Of the people down below whom you would gas
Not a pretty sight, your abject lack of grace
Seems some stitches you should once again replace
Then each time you kiss the bum
Of some vicious right-wing scum
You'll get less shit on your sagging, lifted face
Don't you know when you're not wanted, John McCain?
Have you no conception of the grief and pain
That your hero George has wrought
Even though he never fought
In the war that you forgot for your own gain?
Why on earth do you suppose that we would choose
Such a reckless fool as you to light the fuse
Of another needless crime
That you'd start to pass the time
Just until you show another way to lose?
One can summarize your policy inane
As a take-off on the Third Reich’s brutal bane:
“Where our soldier puts his boot
On some foreign country’s loot
Why then, there forever after he’ll remain”
Not a dollar for a doctor, school, or job;
Yet more billions for some bombs that you can lob
At those hapless foreign souls
Whom you brutalize for polls
Claiming that your “straight talk” lies persuade the mob
Oh, I hope you get that nomination soon
Then your party can collapse into a swoon
From the stench that fills the air
Of that albatross you wear
Dead as your career: you clueless, crude cartoon!
Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright 2007, 2008
January 25, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink