Feingold: Bush should have proposed plan months ago

[RamboLiberal]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Feingold_Bush_should_have_proposed_plan_1129.html

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) issued this statement to RAW STORY in response to President Bush's announcement that he will deliver a plan for victory address to the U.S. Naval Academy Wednesday.

“A majority of the American people, an increasing number of elected officials, and according to a recent article in the “New Yorker,” more and more military and intelligence officials, believe that the President’s “stay the course” policy in Iraq isn’t working.

“In his speech tomorrow at the U.S. Naval Academy, the President has another opportunity to lay out a specific, coherent policy on Iraq that includes a flexible timetable, tied to clear benchmarks, for completing our military mission and withdrawing our troops. By doing so, the President can make sure that our Iraq policy helps, rather than hurts, our broader national security strategy for defeating the global terrorist networks that threaten the U.S.

[ewagner]

1. Ahead of the curve

Nicely done Russ!

Pre-empt Dubya's little media charade!

I wish all the Democrats were as quick with this stuff as Russ Feingold.

[rkc3]

2. Congress should have required this plan when they authorized funding

for this debacle. They should have requested it each and every time bush asked for more money to send to his contributors who are rebuilding Iraq.

While I applaud Feingold's efforts, he and his party should have been asking for a plan, hell, any plan, from the start.

[Lowell]

3. Another photo op

with a back drop of cadets. Why doesn't this assclown ever just address a civilian audience? Is he afraid they will ask questions he can't answer? Or is it another opportunity to strut around in his major domo outfit?