Only a couple weeks after Karl Rove emerged from the Valerie Plame cloud the Repubs have emerged from a strategy of distancing themselves from the admins Iraq strategy. Now they are embracing it with a venegance...and succeeding.
Only a genius like Karl Rove (and the incompetent Dems) could take a war that
- the majority of the American people feel was a mistake,
- the majority feels is being run incompetently and
- a majority feel should include a timetable for withdrawing troops
and...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is waging an aggressive campaign -- complete with a debate prep book, high-level meetings and daily updates -- to persuade U.S. congressional Republicans to stand firm with President
The election-year initiative has paid off so far, with Republicans in both the House of Representatives and the Senate supporting Bush's war position that there can be no speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops as some Democrats advocate.....
The White House, in its ``Daily Iraq Message'' sent to congressional Republicans on Thursday, wrote: ``Three things to remember about Iraq:
--''The president's strategy for Iraq is working.
--''The new sovereign government in Iraq is a new opportunity for progress.
--''There are dire consequences if we leave before Iraqis can defend themselves.''
Included in the meetings with congressional Republicans have been White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley, Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, and counselor, Dan Bartlett, officials said......
yes he is a freakin genius:
Rove signaled the strategy in a speech on June 13 when he said Democrats advocating a withdrawal of U.S. troops should face tough questions for wanting to ``cut and run'' and said Republicans have no excuses to make about the war.
So we should "stay the course" which I guess means keep on doin' what we've been doin' for 4 years and we shouldn't change anything because the strategy is working.
And we can't leave before the Iraqis are able to defend themselves but we have been told for years that the Iraqis were able to take over their own defense yet we haven't found that to be the case.
And only in bizarro world and in the brilliant mind of Karl Rove can we get this convoluted logic
Earlier this year the Pentagon was leaking that it had plans to draw down the number of US troops by (miracle of miracles) November as the Iraqis take over their own defense.
now that it is clear the above is a pipe dream....
those Democrats calling for a timetable for removing some troops and more pressure for the Iraqis to take control of their own political and military destiny are "cut and runners" who don't care about protecting AMERICA.
In the words of a WH aide:
``We need to show we're addressing the global war on terror while Democrats have no strategy other than withdrawing from Iraq,'' the aide said.
Ah yes the link between the global war on terror and the war in Iraq ( you know the country where 10% of the insurgents are connected to al qaeda, which means 90% are engaged in a civil war not a global islamic struggle). It worked for Rove and W in 2004.
my bet is it will work again
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