posted on June 28, 2005 01:54:01 PM new
In other words Libs offer their defeatist views on Iraq......
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 28, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - President Bush plans to address the nation on the situation in Iraq Tuesday night, but before he has a chance to speak, liberals are offering their own fix for what they see as a "quagmire" and a "disaster."
New TV and print ads produced by MoveOn.org's political action committee are scheduled to run shortly before President Bush delivers his prime-time address to the nation on the one-year anniversary of self-rule in Iraq.
Those ads will tell the American people, "We got into Iraq the wrong way - let's get out the right way."
Also on Tuesday, Sen. John F. Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who lost the election to President Bush, offered his views on what Bush should tell the American people.
In a New York Times op-ed entitled "The Speech the President Should Give," Kerry says the Bush administration has turned Iraq into a "breeding ground for jihadists," and he says the president should "tell the truth to the American people."
According to Kerry, "Happy talk about the insurgency being in 'the last throes' leads to frustrated expectations at home."
USA Today reported that President Bush's speech, to be delivered at 8 p.m. at Fort Bragg, N.C., is an attempt to "convince war-weary Americans that the unpopular campaign in Iraq is worthwhile despite spiking violence that makes claims of progress increasingly difficult. "
President Bush has said he doesn't rule according to opinion polls; and on Monday, he said Iraqis must be capable of defending their democracy before the U.S.-led effort can be considered a success.
In a blow to Iraq's fledgling democracy on Tuesday, one of the few Sunni members of the Iraqi parliament was killed in when a car bomb blew up his convoy in northern Baghdad. Also on Tuesday, press reports said U.S. forces have launched a new offensive against insurgents in Iraq's western Euphrates valley.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that despite the difficult news coming out of Iraq - car bombings and U.S. troop deaths -- "it is very important to keep focused" on the political process, because when Iraqis take control of their own future, "there's no doubt that our own coalition forces will be less needed."
Rice said President Bush, in his Tuesday night speech, will tell the American people "where we are in this great mission."
In the interview on Fox & Friends, Rice said the stakes in Iraq are very high: "We're talking about a change in the center of the Middle East that would change the poisonous politics of that region which is producing so much of the extremism" that leads to terrorism.
Rice described Bush's Tuesday night speech as a "progress report on what really is an amazing story of Iraqis taking more and more responsibility for their own affairs."
'Quagmire'
MoveOn PAC's 30-second TV ad calls the war in Iraq a "quagmire," noting that 825 days after it began , 1,725 Americans have died.
The ad mocks President Bush's claim that "we're making really good progress in Iraq," and it quotes Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska saying that "the White House is completely disconnected from reality...It's like they're just making it up as they go along."
"It's time to come home," the ad concludes: "We got in the wrong way. Let's get out the right way."
'Courting disaster'
Sen. Kerry, writing in Tuesday's New York Times, said the Bush administration is "courting disaster" with its current course of action in Iraq.
"Getting out of this box won't be easy," Kerry wrote, "but we owe it to our soldiers to make our best effort."
After explaining what the Bush administration has done wrong in Iraq (ignored advice, went in "largely alone," underestimated the insurgency, and so on), Kerry said this is what the president should do now (in his own words):
-- announce immediately that the United States will not have a permanent military presence in Iraq.
-- insist that the Iraqis establish a truly inclusive political process and meet the deadlines for finishing the Constitution and holding elections in December.
-- put the training of Iraqi troops on a true six-month wartime footing...
-- draw up a detailed plan with clear milestones and deadlines for the transfer of military and police responsibilities to Iraqis after the December elections.
Until Iraq has a "unified national army," it should "make use of its tribal, religious, and ethnic militias," Kerry said.
"The next months are critical to Iraq's future and our security," Kerry concluded. "If Mr. Bush fails to take these steps, we will stumble along, our troops at greater risk, casualties rising, costs rising, the patience of the American people wearing thin, and the specter of quagmire staring us in the face."
President Bush has rejected calls for a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. It would concede too much to the enemy, he said on Friday, adding, "This is an enemy that will be defeated."
posted on June 29, 2005 09:04:13 AM new
Not only that bear, but ol' reid has now offered a list of 'acceptable' nominations for the USSC when a seat or two become open.
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"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
