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On MSNBC, NY Times reporter Kornblut repeated "cut and run" attack on Democrats
On the January 4 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, New York Times reporter Anne E. Kornblut asserted that the "biggest nightmare for some of the Democrats in the Senate would be a Democratic Party that looks as though it just wants to, from -- the words from 2004 - 'cut and run,' " referring to the label frequently applied by Republican critics to Democratic proposals to withdraw troops from Iraq. As Media Matters for America has noted, many media outlets have uncritically repeated the "cut and run" characterization, while failing to note that recent polling, including exit polls of 2006 voters, finds a majority favoring the idea of troop withdrawal.
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Posted by Sams Computer
CUT & RUN - OR STAY & DIE IN VAIN?
Everyone knows that Bush has created and orchestrated a total mess in Iraq and the only remaining solution is a political settlement. The Generals agree with that too, and they should know.
So at this point in time the prudent course is as many expert suggest:
Don't Surge, Don't Bump, Don't Escalate. Don't offer more targets to kill. Begin pulling the troops out to force the Iraqis to take charge of their own country. The Generals have this same view.
This Bush war has been lost! And now Bush wants one last opportunity to win his war that happens to be already lost. He blew his chance to win and now it’s too late.
We pulled out of Vietnam and it was correct and good. We must now pull out of Iraq. It will be correct and it will not transfer the war to our country. Bush's statement is absurd and insults our intelligence. He’s been lying about everything for a long time now.
Even his wife is busy explaining how great things are going in Iraq. Conservatives discount her statements as being totally untrue and out of touch with reality.
It will be the same as when we left Vietnam. We had the same scare tactic consequences of leaving Vietnam. I’m a Vietnam Veteran and in those days it was called the Communist Domino Theory. If we didn’t win in Vietnam then the whole world would become Communistic. It was BS then and it’s BS now as applied to Iraq.
Posted Saturday January 6, 2007 12:04:46 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by HuntingtonBeachLefty in reply to Sams Computer
I would only
disagree on one point, Sams-
That Bush wants a chance to win the war. OK, he might, but the people in charge of him,IMO, just want a continuous, perpetual war, just as they did in Vietnam.
Not only keeps our money flowing to them, makes it much easier to change rules about, oh, warrants, letter opening, phone tapping...
Posted Saturday January 6, 2007 2:29:46 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by Sams Computer in reply to Sams Computer
Our Generals In Iraq.....
Did Not Agree With George So He Replaced Them With Generals Who Will Be More Agreeable.
BUSH:
"I'M THE DECIDER! AND I DECIDE WHAT'S BEST!"
He has also pointed out that he has a high regard for what the Generals on the ground are saying about Iraq. They said don't SURGE and he fired them for it. Looks like a Dictator to me.
Posted Monday January 8, 2007 2:22:31 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by solon
The true nightmare for the COUNTRY
Is the GOP policy of getting as many Americans killed as possible
Posted Saturday January 6, 2007 10:02:45 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by fantagor
Cut and Run: RIP
"Cut and Run" is deader than "Flower Power" or "23-Skiddoo". Hey, grandma Kornsmut, the Republican Revolution is over, because it WAS televised, and the country realized what a pack of waterheads the Republican Party is.
Posted Sunday January 7, 2007 6:08:14 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by HuntingtonBeachLefty in reply to fantagor
Ginchy post, Fantagor
The cat's pajamas!
Posted Monday January 8, 2007 1:09:45 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by captfoster2
SAMS.......
Exactly right! Bush claims that he would listen to his generals, he claims to be the decider and then fires those generals that he claimed to be willing to listen to......
Hmmm...... I wonder how many managers would be able to hold on to their jobs if they were to claim this, instead of generals: replace with: employees
I'm not big on going through a long impeachment process, but all Clinton did was lie about sex and look at that dispicable display of power by the Repubs, at least no one died over it!
Posted Monday January 8, 2007 1:23:44 PM EST / Flag this comment