O’Hanlon: ‘I Could Easily See Myself Changing Camps’ On Iraq ‘In The Next Six To Nine Months’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/13/ohanlon-six-months-ii/


O’Hanlon: ‘I Could Easily See Myself Changing Camps’ On Iraq ‘In The Next Six To Nine Months’

At a Brookings Institution event today, Iraq war proponent Michael O’Hanlon expressed his support for President Bush’s call to extend the escalation, but he claimed he could only support the strategy “for another six to nine months”:

If you think there’s hope (in Iraq), there’s a very powerful argument in favor of trying to see what we can build on, what battle field successes at least we may have had this summer or this year so far. … But I think this is a very complex subject and could easily see myself changing camps in the next six to nine months.

Watch it at link~

Isolated within his own community due to his obsessive flacking for Bush, O’Hanlon has no credibility in making predictions. Some lowlights:

March 2003: “Here’s why things are going well and why they will soon go even better.”

May 2004: “Set a date to pull out.”

November 2005: “(T)he military appears as confident as ever of ultimate victory.”

December 2006: “Give it six more months or so, maybe nine more months.”

March 2007: “There are good reasons to give the war effort, now almost four years old, another six to nine months before concluding that the current strategy should be discarded.”

O’Hanlon’s moment of accountability is always six months away.

[hobbit709]

1. His nose has a permanent brown stain on it.

Another chickenhawk all for something he won't actually have to risk his own ass for.

[jobycom]

2. Just around that next bend, I'm sure of it. Or the next. But no further.

Seriously, I just need a ride for about two blocks, that's all.

[groovedaddy]

3. You've got to be getting a big check to flack like that!

But, hey, repubs have a ton of money to throw around.

[cali]

4. k&r love those quotes n/t

[TwilightGardener]

5. Gotta love a man of conviction.

[Hissyspit]

6. Hissyspit: 'I could see myself giving the finger' to O'Hanlon 'in the next six to nine minutes'

and on into eternity, probably.

[rusty quoin]

7. Opinions without consequences

I wish there were a way for these guys, who influence public opinion,to be held to account for how lightly they treat the subject of life and death.

[niyad]

8. why doesn't he enlist and go over to relieve one of the poor soldiers on a third or fourth tour?

[Javaman]

9. nothing more than trying to push the ball forward...

this tool won't change his mind.