Molly Ivins: 180 in Iraq?

[Dudley_DUright]

Sheesh, it's hard to keep up with this administration. Just a few days ago, we were going to stick it out, no matter what. Like Horton the Elephant, we would be faithful, 100 percent -- never give up, never surrender.

Now we're going to bug out before next year's election, Paul Bremer has been called in for an emergency confab, troops must be down to 105,000 by spring. The CIA, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, has sent a report from Baghdad saying the whole thing's going south. We're back to bombing Baghdad. Forget a constitution, we have to hand it all over to the Iraqis right away.

I'm glad all this bug-out stuff is coming from the administration -- if some liberal said it, we'd all be accused of treason.

Here's the problem in a nutshell: Just a few weeks ago, the Bush administration set out to persuade us all that the glass in Iraq is not half-empty, it is half-full. And indeed, this may be so, but that's a conclusion that depends on one's point of view. The one thing we do know without regard to point of view, politics, spin or public relations is that the number of attacks against American troops have been steadily increasing from 20 to 25 to 30 a day.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15990

[lefty_mcduff]

1. Faux, right on cue, has doen 180 as well...

The talking heads this morning are now discussing this as if it was part of the Boy King's plan all along and that it's more of the 'good news' flowing out of Iraq.

Makes me wanna puke....

[jbfam4]

2. Criminally stupid

According to Molly:
I don't think the Bush administration lied to us about Iraq. I think it's worse than that. I think they fooled themselves. I think they were conned by Ahmad Chalabi. I think they indulged in wishful thinking to a point of near criminality. I think they decided anyone who didn't agree with them was an enemy, anti-American, disloyal. In other words, I think they're criminally stupid.

Can you be tried for being Criminally stupid?

[louis-t]

3. Attacks on the troops...

are now up to 35 a day according to some reports. Elections 1 year away, Bushies spinning out of control, bumping into each other in attempt to backpedal. Note Rummy going to Japan to do some arm twisting. Watch for 'Operation Iron Bumbler' to backfire. Delusional administration still claiming everything's just grand.

[papau]

4. bugout stuff from administration--if some liberal said it, it’d be treason

Good to know Fox's new comments today are not treason!

:-)

[wtmusic]

5. I bet old Saddam's making some phone calls

From despised dictator to cult hero and renewed threat! Thanks Rummy you pathetic moron!