The GOP strategy remains ‘Totally Useless Warfare’
From Anne Flaherty at AP:
“Our troops are mired in a civil war with no clear enemy and no clear strategy for success,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record).
Republicans promised to stand squarely behind the president in rejecting what they called a “surrender date” handed to the enemy.
“Al-Qaida will view this as the day the House of Representatives threw in the towel,” said Rep. Jerry Lewis (news, bio, voting record) of California, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.
Once again, the oft-bribed Jerry Lewis speaks for the Republican minority, displaying how barrren its policy options are.
“We must do what Al Qaida doesn’t like” is the full breadth of their military strategy.
Except Al Qaida trumpets its ‘victories’ with the same laughable hubris as the Cheney White House does, no matter what the facts are. If we stay, they say they’re winning. If we leave, they’ll say their winning.
Sorry, guys, but you can’t call your loss our surrender.
More importantly, nobody’s calling for an end to efforts to track down and eradicate the leaders of any terror organization. Iraqis themselves will turn against Al Qaida when they have to restore order in the wake of the civil war we helped instigate.
But the veto will come because Bush is fixed on one goal only: pass the war onto a Democratic successor so no-one will say ‘Bush lost Iraq.’
Of course, I said Bush lost the occupation effort years ago, at Abu Ghraib. And he’s done nothing constructive since to overcome his advocacy of torture.
The US military didn’t lose the war. The White House and Defense Secretary did. And now it’s time to get back to the serious business of restoring a strong national defense, instead of wasting lives and pouring our resources and democratic strengths down a bottomless rathole.
April 26th, 2007 at 5:32 am
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