Reid And Pelosi Have Bush Flanked (Brent Budowsky)

[babylonsister]

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/04/04/reid-and-pelosi-have-bush-flanked/

Reid And Pelosi Have Bush Flanked (Brent Budowsky)


America, Iraq and the Middle East may have entered a profound and historical turning point.

At this moment, the Reid-Pelosi flanking maneuver is brilliant and powerful. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves aggressively to turn around the military escalation, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) moves aggressively to support Middle East peace initiatives.

Lets begin with one key point. When George Bush said yesterday that he decided to surge the troops and escalate in Iraq at the request of American commanders, he was telling a bald-faced lie.

No more niceties. This is so fundamental and important, with so many American lives at stake, that we should be crystal-clear about the truth.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff overwhelmingly advised against the surge while Bush was making the decision. The commanders in Iraq similarly, overwhelmingly, advised against the surge when Bush was making the decision. This is a matter of indisputable public record and any assertion to the contrary is a proven lie.

Period.

After Bush disrespected and overruled the overwhelming advice of the Chiefs and of the Iraq commanders, and did the surge they pleaded with him not to do, he found a new commander. He also, by the way, ignored and disrespected the advice of Republican leaders such as Sen. John Warner (Va.) and countless Senate GOPers.

When the president claims, falsely, that he decided to surge based on the requests of commanders, who in truth pleaded against the surge, there is a delusional and dishonest quality to this, which is extremely dangerous and symptomatic of what has gone wrong.

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[graywarrior]

1. Heh heh, if he had any balls, they'd be being squeezed tight right now.

[Spazito]

2. Excellent read! Thanks for posting!

I love the ending of this article:

"I predict that before the rooster crows 60 times, our president and secretary of state will be sounding and acting like the Speaker today.

The Reid-Pelosi pincer maneuver has begun.

The future will soon be now, and it will be where the majority leader and the Speaker are standing today."

Recommended.

[BOSSHOG]

3. More "conservative" irony

In 2002, when a four star general with more then 30 years of experience in his craft, the senior officer in the Army told bush that his plan would take at least 400,000 troops; bush fired him; embarrased him and rumsfeld didn't attend his retirement ceremony. Now, that clusterfuckhead is in quick sand up to his drug encrusted nose, the Generals are singing a different tune (and rightly so) and dipshit wants a different song.

[Cha]

8. Who was that General? I don't

want his name to be forgotten. Not coming up with anything on google.

I remember he was Japanese and I want to acknowledge him.

[BOSSHOG]

9. GENERAL SHINSEKI

I believe he is a resident of Hawaii.

[Cha]

11. Thank you!

:patriot: :patriot:

[babylonsister]

10. Eric Shinseki; here's his wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Shinseki

Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army General and served as the 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1999 - 2003). He is the first Asian American four-star general in U.S. history, as well as the first Asian American to lead one of the four U.S. military services. During his tenure, Shinseki initiated an innovative but controversial plan to make the Army more strategically deployable and mobile in urban terrain by creating Stryker Interim-Force Brigade Combat Teams. His long-term initiative was called Objective Force and the main long-term weapons program he pushed was the Future Combat Systems.

Shinseki is famous for his remarks to the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee before the war in Iraq in which he said "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for post-war Iraq. Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz publicly disagreed with his estimate.<1>

When the insurgency took hold in post-war Iraq, Shinseki's comments and their public rejection by the civilian leadership were often cited by those who felt the Bush administration deployed too few troops to Iraq. On November 15, 2006, in testimony before Congress, USCENTCOM CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abizaid said that General Shinseki's estimate had proved correct. <2>

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[Cha]

12. VINDICATED!

Viva, General Shinseki!

Thank you, babylonSistah!

[DURHAM D]

4. Mother Pelosi should ask Bush to come stand with her on peace -

but remind him that he has to behave like an adult if he wants to be at the adult table. Otherwise, he can be sent back to the children's table.

[derby378]

5. Does this mean that Pelosi and Reid have shown the world...

...that Bush, as far as US policy goes, may be expendable?

:popcorn:

[grannylib]

6. Thank you for reminding all about this key point; great post. Great read.

My only hope is that the Democrats will continue to keep the pressure up, and on more than just this filthy war of choice in which the Chimperor has enmired us.
The house of cards the Publican party has constructed is starting to topple, and I'm not interested in playing 52-pick-up when it's all down. I want it burned to ash and maybe Keith Richards can snort it or something...nah, wait, never mind, that WOULD kill him, sorry, Keith! Skip that.

I bet Dumbya would snort it.

[Cha]

7. They'll come a day when

it will be said Loud And Clear that there is a sociopathic, psycho sitting in the Oval Office and he needs to be impeached and taken away for the sake of our country and for the World's Sake.

cheney is just snarling and sneering his face right off over this.