A QUESTION FOR BILL KRISTOL

[laststeamtrain]

A QUESTION FOR BILL KRISTOL....Bill Kristol, speaking to an imaginary congressman, says we ought to give President Bush's new strategy in Iraq a chance:

Last fall you called for replacing Rumsfeld. You've complained that there weren't enough troops. What's more, you've heard good things about General David Petraeus from colleagues with military expertise. So now Bush has fired Rumsfeld, put Petraeus in command, and sent in more troops. Maybe this new approach deserves a chance to work?

For anyone who had only those three complaints about our strategy in Iraq, it's a good point. For the rest of us, not so much.

But let's turn the question around. Kristol himself is one of the people who have called for firing Rumsfeld, sending more troops to Baghdad, and putting a guy like Petraeus in command. Now Bush has done it. So if it doesn't work, Bill, what are you going to do? Will you admit that the strategy you endorsed was wrong? Or will you just regroup and blithely insist that it was never implemented the way you wanted?

I'm taking bets.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_01/010561.php
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I have another question for him, "Why are you still around?" Are you going for all-time champion of WRONG?

[illinoisprogressive]

1. My question is when are you going to prison for what you have done

Along with Wolfowitz and the rest of the neocons.

[mmonk]

2. Give invasion and occupation a chance.

[spanone]

3. Remember, there is NO Plan B.

That's because plan A will take them till they are out of office. Then cheney can retire to montana or halliburton and bush* can go away with no resposibility required.

[mmonk]

6. Nope.

You can't rule people against their will if you leave.

[Rex]

4. One of the dumbest men on Earth.

I rank him up there with people like Novak. A real detriment to the human race IMO.

[laststeamtrain]

9. Maybe there should be an official military honor for civilians

The Feith Award

Douglas Feith, described by General Tommy Franks as either "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet" (according to Franks' autobiography) or "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth" (according to Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack).

[eleny]

5. He reminds me of the Nazi tank commander in Kelly's Heroes

[Phredicles]

7. Jon Stewart asked him something like that last time he was on TDS;

he asked if he kept backing Bush because he was due to be right finally, comparing him to someone playing a disastrous run of craps, to the point of losing his pants. At this point, the question you pose is definitely a fair one; if I were so famously wrong so often I might be tempted to shut the hell up at some point.

[NanceGreggs]

8. But he's prescient!

In February 2002, Bill Kristol made a statement that rivals the predictions of Nostradamus: “Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.”

If by ‘not too tall an order’ he meant an endless expenditure of blood and money, he was dead-on in his assessment.

[Jacobin]

10. There are plans "B" through "Z"

Like the cats in the hats.

Believe me, he will never ever ever run out of excuses and reasons to stay. One,he wants to be 'right' and two his interests and the United State's interests are not the same. Save your flames, because you know he's wrong and not for any good reason

[Swamp Rat]

11. Yeah Bill, you steaming pile of chicken shit. How about YOU go fight in Iraq and

send your kids too!

Or do you think you are better than most Americans?