Re: Bush Won Iraq

by Brien Jackson

Tommy, that’s not really all that surprising. The neocons have been setting that up for quite some time, and it’s the thinking behind the push to force everyone to “admit the surge worked.” It doesn’t make any sense obviously, we won’t know if the surge worked until troops start leaving. But the calculation is pretty simple; the surge probably didn’t really do much for the long term situation, but if the idea that the surge fixed everything in Iraq becomes conventional wisdom then Obama will take all the blame for anything bad that happens once troop levels decrease. That this logic requires we leave 100k+ troops in Iraq forever to “succeed” won’t make any difference on cable with people like Kristol and Krauthammer pushing it endlessly.

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One Response to “Re: Bush Won Iraq”

  1. Tommy Brown Says:
    January 27th, 2009 at 6:12 PM

    Yeah, but anyone who knows even the slightest little bit about how things are actually going in Iraq knows this is a lie that is actually more untruthful and stupid than the “Walter Cronkite lost Vietnam” lie. It’s just amazing that anyone is stupid enough to buy it.

    And I know they’re political whores, but why do the pundits lie? Lie lie lie lie lie.

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