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Thursday August 16, 2007
Categories: Iraq
Did you see this interesting little tidbit buried in an L.A. Times story yesterday? Seems that General Petraeus isn't going to be writing the Iraq report due next month after all. The White House will: Despite Bush's repeated statements that...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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More than sick. Utterly and absolutely disgusted. This White House, with it's totally toxic blending of ignorance and arrogance, is totally lacking in credibility.
Nixon lied, and he knew he was lying.
Bush simply won't see, accept, or utter the truth about this tragic, bloody blunder.
I seem to be vizualizing something about wolves guarding chicken coops. Wouldn't know why :)
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Bush simply won't see, accept, or utter the truth about this tragic, bloody blunder.
Or, more likely, he absolutely knows what he's doing and that based on the makeup up Congress, he knows he can continue to get away with it because nobody will, or can, stop him.
I guessed this months ago ...
The draw down in troops is for one of two reasons --
1) We can't possibly extend tours of duty any longer and simply do not have the personnel to sustain the numbers we have there now. In truth, if we were really serious about stabilizing Iraq, we would be adding at least 100,000 more troops to completely squash the insurgency.
2) We're moving the show slightly to the east. All the signs are there. Now they have begun to demonize Iran's MILITARY as a terrorist organization.
I can't believe I voted these people into power (the first time only.) One of the greatest mistakes I have ever made. I should have known. On the other hand, I was very keen on Dick Cheney back then... because he was so level-headed... watch this, it's incredibly prophetic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
And now he's completely reversed everything. 9/11 changes nothing to everything he said there, nothing at all. George H.W. Bush, a man I truly admire and fervently supported, agrees with the Cheney of yesteryear, I assure you.
The legislation (that is H.R. 1585: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008) requires that the President, as commander-in-chief, submit a report to Congress. It specifically calls on the President to make this report.
But hey lets not allow facts to get in the way of some good Bush bashing!
Last week while listening to NPR's "All Things Considered," I heard Lt. General Douglas Lute, the president's so-called "War Czar" admitting that bringing back the draft is a possible solution that belongs on the table. Obviously the NPR interviewer was spinning the draft option pretty heavily with Lute actually being interrupted as he (pretty convincingly, I thought) downplayed any notions that a draft was imminent. But he didn't dismiss it entirely, either.
Everyone who makes the mistake of mentioning a return to the draft forgets that no congressman who values his seat would be stupid enough to vote for it.
Put the tinfoil back in the cabinet & no one will get hurt...
As was referenced by SA Miller, the legislation requires the POTUS to submit the report.
This is rational, as data and analysis come from many parts of the executive branch not under Gen Petraeus' command.
It is amazing how ignorance can breed suspicion.
There is nothing ignorant about the rampant use of "executive privilege" to stymie every attempt to gather information about the decision processes in the White House.
I will, ask implied, await the WH report based on Gen. Petraeus' information. I will then await the various forms of "I can't answer that" that the general will be forced to use during any congressional hearing the WH allows him to attend.
Oh, and for those who think Congress will have anything to say about the draft: read (or try to read) the last several executive orders that have come from the WH under Bush's signature. Harken back to the formation of the EEOC and the birth of affirmative action: it all started with executive orders.
Congress is fast becoming a toothless tiger, and they have cooperated with the dentistry, mostly, over the last 20 years and more.
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