Even Jonah Fricking Goldberg Is Jumping Off The Sinking Iraq Ship!

[mhatrw]

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-goldberg1024.artoct24,0,6359515.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped

Changing Course In Iraq
October 24, 2006

There's a strict taboo in the column-writing business against recycling ideas. So let me start with something fresh.

The Iraq war was a mistake.

I know, I know. But I've never said it before. And I don't enjoy saying it now. I'm sure that to the antiwar crowd this is too little, too late, ... (typical Goldbergian drivel starts here)


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As is National Review editor Rich Lowry: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGM0YzcwMWJmOTlmZWQxMDUyZTk2YTczY2RhODdhZDQ=

Change the Course

Does The Decider see what we see?

By Rich Lowry

President Bush’s resolve is something to behold. One Bush aide tells a story of how when he left Texas to work for Bush in the White House after the 2000 election, a friend gave him a photograph of Lyndon Johnson visibly crushed at his desk, looking at casualty reports from Vietnam. The point was to remind this Bush adviser that the burdens of the office can break any man.

The problem for Bush is that in the current environment, his resolve has become a drag. People hear him say that he will stay in Iraq even if only Laura and Barney still support him, and they think it signals a stubborn unwillingness to adjust. They hear him say that the next president will have to decide whether or not troops are in Iraq, and it sounds as if Bush’s Iraq policy is on a mindless auto-pilot. ...

He needs to give a “change the course” speech. He cannot give up on his essential goal of establishing a stable, democratic Iraq, but he needs to signal that the strategy in Iraq, the number of troops (we might need more), and all constructive ideas from Democrats or Republicans are on the table, because he is not happy with the progress there and he is working to find better approaches. Bush has given the impression of being detached from reality in Iraq, and that sense is simply deadly. ...

There is a crisis in Iraq for all to see. Bush has to make it plain that he sees it too, and that his government is going to react to it. If he doesn’t, his admirable resolve risks becoming a millstone around the neck of himself and his party.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Hey, Jonah.

We.Told.You.So.

650,000 slaughtered.

Blood on YOUR hands, asshole!

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. Now If Only He Would Jump Off the Empire State Building!

We can wish. :)

[mitchum]

6. And land on his goddamn mother!

[partylessinOhio]

3. And your mother is a fat bitch!

[lcordero2]

4. I think this has everything to do with self-preservation

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HJ19Ad01.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HJ20Ad01.html

Things didn't go too well in between Olmert and Putin when they met up.

[dave502d]

5. Anchor. n/t

[ovidsen]

7. More like ships deserting a sinking rat. The SS Bush Rat. n/t