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| Originally posted by shaolin_Z For the record, Opus always utterly destroys all the Republicans and Neocons on this board on a fairly regular basis, so this is nothing new to me. |
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| Originally posted by Fir3start3r We all don't have the time to be windbags either No offense Opus |
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| Originally posted by occrider And we don't all have the time or lack of ethics to support a nonchalant attitude towards the wasteful sacrifice of the lives of my countrymen. |
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| Originally posted by Fir3start3r We all don't have the time to be windbags either No offense Opus |
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| Behind the display of bravado, the West Wing is seized with anxiety. Any rustle in the brush, any sudden noise, upsets the president's aides. As they try to regain their composure and confidence, recalling the glory days when they constituted themselves as the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, a P.R. juggernaut before the invasion, they know who and what they have buried along the way and fear their return. The release of a documentary on the administration's failures in Iraq, "No End in Sight," directed by Charles Ferguson, has the White House spooked. Bush's aides are not worried because the film is brilliantly shot and edited, or because it is compelling, but because of what -- or whose appearance -- it might augur to upset their September rollout. The film features three former administration officials speaking on camera as unreserved critics of prewar and postwar planning: Powell's former chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson; Powell's former deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage; and former U.S. ambassador Barbara Bodine, a senior member of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq, closely aligned with Powell. Wilkerson and Bodine have spoken out before. But Armitage's debut in particular has the White House fuming and fretting that it somehow signals Powell's emergence as a full-throated critic in the middle of the September P.R. offensive. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, according to sources close to him, has voiced anger and concern about whether Powell will step forward and what he might say, and other presidential aides are wondering how to cope with that nightmarish possibility. Two months ago, Powell declared the surge a near-certain failure. On June 10, on NBC's "Meet the Press," he declared, "The current strategy to deal with it, called a surge -- the military surge, our part of the surge under General Petraeus -- the only thing it can do is put a heavier lid on this boiling pot of civil war stew ... And so General Petraeus is moving ahead with his part of it, but he's the one who's been saying all along there is no military solution to this problem. The solution has to emerge from the other two legs, the Iraqi political actions and reconciliation, and building up the Iraqi security and police forces. And those two legs are not -- are not going well. That part of strategy is not going well." http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumen...09/iraq_powell/ |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Of course that undermines, once again, that whole "darn librul media" argument, but hey, who's counting anymore? |
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| Originally posted by Fir3start3r not that we ever had any questions regarding your loyalties at this point... |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 nor do any of us have similar questions regarding yours..... |
Anything america is involved in, progress does not exist. Includeing the country itself.
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