Rove outlines Busheviks' Iraq strategy to win midterms: lie again

[underpants]

Rove outlines Busheviks' Iraq strategy to win midterms: lie again about Dems being weak on terrorism

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/13/2006/2035

You have to hand it to Karl Rove. When he finds something that works, he sticks with it. While the president was conducting his symbolic Iraq war strategy summit on Monday, the newly energized, indictment-free chief political operative outlined in his game plan for November, borrowing heavily from his '04 playbook. The overall theme: Iraq is a success. The Busheviks and Repugs can take the credit for this progress. We just killed Abu Masab al-Zarqawi, which is another huge milestone. The Democrats are weak pansies who run from war and would not protect Americans from terrorism. Sound eerily familiar? What's scary is how well this crap worked the last time. Can it work again?


The simple fact is, the war is not a success. It's a disaster. And the Bushies know it. But rather than outline a plan for victory and withdrawal, they're choosing once again to attack and smear Democrats in the most irresponsible and reprehensible way.

"When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running," Rove said at a state GOP event in New Hampshire on Monday evening. Surely he must be talking about his own party, whose chickenhawk leaders--Bush, Cheney, Frist, Hastert, Santorum and Rove himself--ran like scared little mama's boys when they faced having to fight in a war. Their delusions of machismo 35 years later makes me want to puke.

The Democrats, if they had their way, would never have killed al-Zarqawi, Rove told his kool-aid drunk audience, and they'd have Iraq fall to terrorists. Well correct me if I'm wrong here, but hasn't Iraq already fallen to terrorists? Isn't that country in a state of chaos, with dozens of citizens and soldiers killed practically every day? Isn't it clear that the U.S. has absolutely no control over the violence there? Isn't it also true that al-Zarqawi has already been replaced, the violence has escalated, and the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Osama bin Laden, still roams free and is allowed to see his Al Qaeda operation in Iraq prosper?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. The Damage Has Already Been Done

No amount of crowing by Bush or his rightwing "apologists" in the Congress or media "cheerleading" can cover up the facts that nearly as many people (2,500 NOT counting any civilian casualties) have died in Iraq by now as on 9/11, the war on Iraq was a war that did NOT have to be fought now and maybe ever, Zarqawi could've easily been taken out WITHOUT invading Iraq if the administration REALLY was concerned about him since we apparently knew where he was and that he was within our reach, NONE of the original justifications for war against Iraq have panned out (i.e. WMD) and the administration and other supporters of the war have had to repeatedly backtrack and substitute other rationales for the war, and the war has lost favor with the American public. Whatever corners are being "turned" now should've been "turned" a long time ago, especially if the administration had listened to people who actually knew what they were talking about but were purposefully IGNORED. Making some progress in Iraq NOW when we shouldn't even have needed to be there in the first place should NOT be looked at as some kind of victory for our country nor the American people most of whom were, at best, misled into supporting our invasion/occupation of Iraq and, at worst, LIED into supporting it to further the political and economic goals of this administration and/or its supporters. The damage to this administration and the Republicans has already been done and there is NOTHING that they can do to change that. The only question that remains to be answered is will the American public (or at least those that actually go to the polls in November) continue to endorse the policies and priorities of the architects and supporters of this disaster? I hope not.

[underpants]

2. Well said

I posted the other day about how most people have turned off politics for the summer.

About Zarqawi and getting him before the war (you probably have seen this already):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/



Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind
By Jim Miklaszewski
Pentagon Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:14 p.m. ET March 2, 2004

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

[katty]

3. Suppress the votes and steal again