Neocons: Iraq's Not Going ***SO*** Badly!

[BurtWorm]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/26/MNGFR6RT7I1.DTL

"There's no question the administration has been in total panic mode, and they don't need to be, because Iraq is salvageable," said Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that has been a hotbed of support for the war. "But I think there is still so much indecision about what to do that it's going to be hard for them to do the right thing."

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"It was important for Bush to remind the American public of the cost of failure," said Michael Rubin, an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute and another neoconservative war supporter. "Basically, Bush was letting us see the forest through the trees."


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"The truth is it wouldn't take much actually to turn this around, not that they necessarily will," said Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for a New American Century, a leading neoconservative think tank. "There are a lot of very positive trends going on in Iraq, and I think if you take care of the security situation and the political trend lines toward real elections, in fact I think Iraq is more than salvageable."

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<Incidentally, Michael Rubin, who worked for the CPA in Iraq for a while before joining the AEI, was named at the Tompaine.com blog today as a possible (unwitting) passer of secrets to Ahmad Chalabi. Rubin denies it.>

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Compared to friggin' WHAT?

The Black Plague or the great flood?

[boobooday]

2. I wonder if it feels good to be so delusional?

I wonder. I would think you would have to be completely delusional, or else you would be plagued by tiny little pinpricks of doubt now and then.

The Republicans, who used to rail against "moral relativism" are now trying to rationalize a foreign policy disaster, a military disaster, an economic disaster, and a moral disaster, and are left trying to tell us that at least sodomizing innocent people isn't as bad as beheading them.

:puke:

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