Did you read Robert Novak's recent column? The Bush inner circle appears to be telegraphing to the non-neocon righties that they plan to pull out of Iraq soon after the election! While in the meantime Bush continues to talk tough for the security moms.Well-placed sources in the administration are confident Bush's decision will be to get out. They believe that is the recommendation of his national security team and would be the recommendation of second-term officials. An informed guess might have Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, Paul Wolfowitz as defense secretary and Stephen Hadley as national security adviser. According to my sources, all would opt for a withdrawal.
Getting out now would not end expensive U.S. reconstruction of Iraq, and certainly would not stop the fighting. Without U.S. troops, the civil war cited as the worst-case outcome by the recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate would be a reality. It would then take a resolute president to stand aside while Iraqis battle it out. Novak is a paleoconservative and kinda sorta opposed the invasion so this may be wishful thinking on his part. But I don't think so. The neocons may have decided this thing isn't winnable and are looking to save their front man so they can fight (Iran) another day. I wish I could say Kerry/Edwards were an antidote to this craven duplicity but they also speak with bifurcated tongue on the issue. "We'll win this thing with European allies" and "We'll be out in four years" are just a lame campaign message.
at the moment the ever shifting conventional wisdom is that the occupation has failed, and its all about an exit strategy now. that national intelligence estimate should have been the type of document that dan rather waved in americas face. he could have had his walter cronkite this-war-is-unwinnable moment instead of his not-very-smoking-gun-which-turns-out-to-be-made-from-soap episode.
kerry should have been howling from day 1 (the day after he capitulated) that this war and its run-up were abjectly mismanaged if not an out right fraud, and that people are dying as a result. sad that he has to go around proving that he is tough instead of smart. not that he is exceptionally smart or decidedly less duplicitous.
Maybe Novak should ask Valerie Plame what she would do about it.
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Did you read Robert Novak's recent column? The Bush inner circle appears to be telegraphing to the non-neocon righties that they plan to pull out of Iraq soon after the election! While in the meantime Bush continues to talk tough for the security moms.Novak is a paleoconservative and kinda sorta opposed the invasion so this may be wishful thinking on his part. But I don't think so. The neocons may have decided this thing isn't winnable and are looking to save their front man so they can fight (Iran) another day. I wish I could say Kerry/Edwards were an antidote to this craven duplicity but they also speak with bifurcated tongue on the issue. "We'll win this thing with European allies" and "We'll be out in four years" are just a lame campaign message.
- tom moody 9-21-2004 5:30 pm
at the moment the ever shifting conventional wisdom is that the occupation has failed, and its all about an exit strategy now. that national intelligence estimate should have been the type of document that dan rather waved in americas face. he could have had his walter cronkite this-war-is-unwinnable moment instead of his not-very-smoking-gun-which-turns-out-to-be-made-from-soap episode.
kerry should have been howling from day 1 (the day after he capitulated) that this war and its run-up were abjectly mismanaged if not an out right fraud, and that people are dying as a result. sad that he has to go around proving that he is tough instead of smart. not that he is exceptionally smart or decidedly less duplicitous.
- dave 9-21-2004 6:48 pm
Maybe Novak should ask Valerie Plame what she would do about it.
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