Bill Kristol: Untold Great Progress in Iraq

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http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/bush_war/2007/08/29/28384.html

Bill Kristol: Untold Great Progress in Iraq

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:12 PM

Author: Ken Timmerman

Conservative pundit and TV commentator Bill Kristol told conservative bloggers on Tuesday that President Bush and the Pentagon have to do a better job of selling the war, especially now that generals in Iraq believe that they are well on the way to utterly destroying the insurgency.

Kristol, who also edits the Weekly Standard, just returned from a trip to Iraq where he was briefed on the surge by senior U.S. military commanders.

“I was most struck by how much the generals focused on Iran,” Kristol told the bloggers at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “They were all convinced that we were going to win against al-Qaida.”

Instead, in the briefings the generals “emphasized Iranian training of Shia militias” and Iran’s extensive military and intelligence presence inside Iraq.

Kristol said he was struck by the change in conditions in Iraq in recent months, and noted that they were able to walk the streets of Ramadi “without body armor.” The change has come from the “pivot” to the counter-insurgency strategy of Gen. David Petraeus, which began early this year and accelerated in the spring.

Kristol faulted the White House and the Pentagon for behaving as if America was not at war.

Good war presidents also “second-guessed their generals,” which Bush appears not to have done until recently, he said. War presidents have also addressed the American public in speeches and briefings using maps to explain strategy, so Americans could understand the stakes and the progress of the conflict. So far, neither President Bush nor his defense secretaries have done that, in stark contrast to the way the first Gulf war was explained daily to the public by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf in 1991.

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[marmar]

1. I hope Bill Kristol enjoyed his weekend in Amsterdam....

:smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

[bdamomma]

2. another sick PNAC'er

they can go to Hell!!!

[NewJeffCT]

3. Mr Kristol, you have been so wrong on everything regarding Iraq

why should we believe you now?

Fool me once, shame on me... fool me twice, won't get fooled again.

or something like that.

but, it's been like "fool me a thousand times" now.

[ck4829]

4. Yeah, all those innocent Iraqis being sent to the Great Beyond must be a real good thing, right?

[tularetom]

5. Untold my ass - Kristol has been babbling about it for years

It's been pretty much disproven by now but this bag of shit keeps getting invited onto various TV newstainment shows to puke it out again and again. It's all bullshit of course but it sure as hell ain't untold.

[panader0]

6. Yeah, the insurgency is in it's last throes.........

:sarcasm:

[BOSSHOG]

7. krystol briefing the heritage foundation? A liar briefing morons

and none of them are patriotic and all of them are cowards.

[Rob H.]

8. "...was explained daily to the public by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf in 1991."

Yeah, like ShrubCo would put someone on TV to talk about the administration's mind-boggling clusterfuck every day. Despite their ham-handed bungling and inability/unwillingness to change course, they know deep down that at this point it would be a gigantic mistake to give the American public daily reminders that we're still in Iraq, contrary to Rumsfailed's breezy predictions about "six days, six weeks, I doubt six months" before we went over there.

And of course Bill Kristol is going to say things are going swimmingly over there. He's a dyed-in-the-wool bitter-ender just like fascist fuckwit Richard Perle.

[underpants]

9. I, for one, would like to here what Bill Kristol has to say about this...