David Gregory IS An ASSHOLE

[stopbush]

He was on Andrea Mitchell today as a guest, speaking about Benghazi. He said that the tragedy in Benghazi shows what happens when you invade a country and leave too light a force there to maintain the peace.

Er, when did we invade Libya?

[Control-Z]

1. Yeah, and Andrea Mitchell called out

on it. Not!

[lpbk2713]

2. Two cookies from the same cutter.

I'm glad I missed it.

[Cha]

3. Stupid asshole. fixed it.

[Politicalboi]

4. Mrs. Greenspan and Mr. Gregory

[Jesus Malverde]

5. We provided air cover to militants aka jihadists and had special forces calling in the fire.

It was one of those light touch invasions.

The would never have won without NATO bombing the crap out the Libyan army.

But your right gregory is an a-hole.

[gordianot]

6. Now when does Gregory get booted off Meet the Press?

This may be an audition for Fox News so he can dance with Rove fulltime.

[SoapBox]

7. Asshole?

Why YES! Yes he is!

[JHB]

8. More to the point, IRAQ is what happens when the force is too small

In 2002, in the midst of the Bushie's "catapulting the propaganda" to get the Authorization to Use Military Force, there were leaks from Pentagon sources to the effect that under then-accepted counterinsurgency doctrine an invasion of Iraq would need three or four times as many troops that was being talked about by Shrub Central simply to maintain order. In Feb. 2003 General Shinseki openly said the "hundreds of thousands" would be necessary.

Rumsfeld squelched him, and other neocons sneered at him as a "Clintonite". Because they all knew "shock and awe" would do the trick, we'd be "greeted as liberators", and all the rest of their pie-in-the-sky bullshit predictions.

Besides, if the debate had been over sending in a half-million men they'd never be able to get away with the it'll-be-quick-and-cheap "practically pay for itself" line of horseshit, which might have prevented them from getting the AUMF (or, even worse from the Bushie's perspective, encourage talk of repealing his tax cut for the rich).

So there weren't enough troops in Iraq to quell the looting, and any shot at an orderly creation of a new Iraqi government went straight down the tubes.

I don't recall David Gregory talking about that much. 'Cause for anyone who did, bringing the subject up about Benghazi would be beyond ridiculous. But then, he's an asshole, so such ridiculousness is expected (and tolerated by whoever signs his paycheck).

[pansypoo53219]

9. no shit.

how did he not think of using a republikan case? hmm.

and why is nobody pointing out that the ambassador himself wanted to be closer to the Libyans?

[truebrit71]

10. Exactly...and more proof that he is a very poor excuse for a 'journalist'...

...we invaded Libya? Really? When?

His journalistic style would have described Noah's flood as merely being a series of minor rain storms resulting in the entire surface of the planet becoming "a little damp"...

Fucking partisan jag off...

[truebrit71]

11. Do you have a transcript, because this particular smarmy ass-carrot needs to be twittered...

...mercilessly about this....