Snow Falsely Asserts Lugar Believes Escalation Is ‘Working’

[babylonsister]

Lyin' POS...

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/09/snow-lugar-surge/

Snow Falsely Asserts Lugar Believes Escalation Is ‘Working’

During the press conference today, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow blindly defended the President’s “surge strategy” and inexplicably argued that Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) supports the policy. “If you look at what Senator Lugar has said about the surge so far, he says that it’s working,” said Snow. “His comments indicate that he thinks it’s working.”

Watch it/read transcript at link~

In reality, two weeks ago, Lugar issued a sharp rebuke of the President’s “surge strategy.” On the floor of the U.S. Senate he specifically stated that the Bush administration’s “surge” is failing:

In my judgment, the current surge strategy is not an effective means of protecting interests. Its prospects for success are too dependent on the actions of others who do not share our agenda. It relies on military power to achieve goals that it cannot achieve. It distances allies that we will need for any regional diplomatic effort. Its failure, without a careful transition to a back-up policy would intensify our loss of credibility. It uses tremendous amounts of resources that cannot be employed in other ways to secure our objectives. And it lacks domestic support that is necessary to sustain a policy of this type.

While Lugar has yet to agree to act on his rhetoric, it is laughable for the White House to suggest that Lugar’s comments — and the comments of several other prominent conservatives — are any sort of endorsement of the President’s policies in Iraq.

[spanone]

1. Posted during press conference

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1282829&mesg_id=1282829

Proves what a damned liar mr. snow is....

[babylonsister]

2. Click on that link and tell me what you get... pls. nt

[spanone]

3. sorry, try this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1282829&mesg_id=1282829

[babylonsister]

4. Thanks! That worked; nice catch! I missed the presser. nt

[spanone]

5. I can't believe that Snow said that, and not ONE reporter challenged him.

Unbelievable.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Lugar needs to clarify--let's see if he has the balls to do so.

[NNN0LHI]

7. If Luger gets asked about this he will swear Snow is telling the truth n/t