Monday - June 26, 2006

Punching Out

Somehow the phrase “stay the course” is being turned into something bad by Liberals, Democrats and media pundits. The cartoon below illustrates the ignorance and sheer arrogance of trying to fight a fire or a war on a time clock. That is madness and the Left knows it.

The Democrats have pushed and leaned on the administration for months now to set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and if you read the story below the cartoon from the Washington Post you’ll see that once the Pentagon released a “guideline” for troop reduction last week the Democrats started screaming, “HEY! That’s OUR plan! You stole it!”

Do you really want the Donks protecting us in this war? Do you believe for even one instant that Democrats have or ever had anything resembling a plan to fight the war on terror either in Iraq or Afghanistan? If you do, I have this lovely little bridge in Brooklyn I’ll sell you. Real cheap. One owner, low mileage.

_{Eric Allie - Chicago}

Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts In Iraq
Pentagon Plan Like Theirs, Senators Say
_{Monday, June 26, 2006 (WASHINGTON POST)}

Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack by Republicans for trying to set a timetable for withdrawal.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated Thursday on a largely party-line vote in the Senate.

“That means the only people who have fought us and fought us against the timetable, the only ones still saying there shouldn’t be a timetable really are the Republicans in the United States Senate and in the Congress,” Boxer said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “Now it turns out we’re in sync with General Casey.”

Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), one of the two sponsors of the nonbinding resolution, which offered no pace or completion date for a withdrawal, said the report is another sign of what he termed one of the “worst-kept secrets in town”—that the administration intends to pull out troops before the midterm elections in November.

“It shouldn’t be a political decision, but it is going to be with this administration,” Levin said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s as clear as your face, which is mighty clear, that before this election, this November, there’s going to be troop reductions in Iraq, and the president will then claim some kind of progress or victory.”

At issue was a report yesterday in the New York Times that Casey presented a private briefing at the Pentagon last week in which he projected that the number of U.S. combat brigades—each with about 3,500 troops—would decrease from 14 to five or six by the end of 2007. About 127,000 U.S. troops are now in Iraq, including many support troops beyond the combat brigades.

- More Democratic Party silliness at the Washington Post ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/26/2006 at 07:39 AM   
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