Why September?

[CatWoman]

What super-duper-fantastic-nifty-spiffy-tubular-expealidocious event is supposed to take place in September, that bars all discussion about us leaving Iraq NOW?

[DutchLiberal]

1. Wow. I didn't even realized that.

Would they be THAT cynical?

...

Wait, dumb question.

[toddaa]

2. Cheney declares war against Iran

You haven't figured this out yet?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. It's an artificial timeline drawn up several months ago...

which is now unexpectedly quickly approaching.

[CatWoman]

6. bad news, everybody

:hi:

[Igel]

4. Report on the 'surge'? n/t

[GOPisEvil]

5. Andy Card says you should always trot out new products in September.

Georgie (and Congress) will be on vacation most of August. Georgie needs the time to come up with a new line of bullshit policy toward Iraq.

[CatWoman]

7. LOL

:hi: David

they must all now be studying photoshop :)

[GOPisEvil]

9. Photoshop worked for Colin at the UN!

Who can forget the Winnebagoes of Death? :D

I need to learn Photoshop so I can get them all back! *shakes fist* ;)

:hi: Midori

[MessiahRp]

8. The strange thing is Petraeus has already made his opinion of the situation clear

as he said the surge will take until at least "next spring".

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/world/middleeast/16cnd-commander.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

It's obvious that Petraeus is Bush's boy. He's going to say whatever the Adminstration wants him to say so Republicans who claim to need to wait until his September speech are full of shit. They already know his evaluation because it came straight from the White House.

Rp

[Rick Myers]

10. It's that 'rollin' out a new product' bullshit!!!

:beer:

[spanone]

11. Nothing, nada, zip, zero, ziltch. All the closer to the chimps grand escape.

he'll leave it to the next schlob who gets elected.

[HeeBGBz]

12. Peak hurricane season

If anything blows the coasts this year, those National Guard troops will be sorely missed and the resentment of them being stuck in Iraq will continue to grow.

[Bitwit1234]

13. I thought that was when the funding runs out.

[Coexist]

14. I believe that has something to do with the troop rotations

I tried to find the quote from way back when the original bill was passed, but can't, sorry.

[Obamarama]

15. Because it will be their chance to celebrate the new national mourning holiday, 9/11

They're not going to reach their benchmarks but the timing will give them a stage. They can look to the site of the former world trade centers and say see,,,we're fightihg them over there so we won't have to over here. As if there's anyone LEFT who actually believes that BS.