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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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From: Brumar898/13/2007 6:58:57 PM
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Dems and NY Times change course in Iraq
Don Surber:

This is gonna be startling for those leftwingers who hang on whatever the NYT prints.

To paraphrase John Kerry: Who wants to be the last person calling for the U.S. to surrender a war the Army is winning? Apparently not Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama or the New York Times, which just 5 weeks ago said genocide was better than having U.S. troops keep the peace in Iraq.

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Today, finally, 36 days after committing moral suicide, the Times tried to revive its reputation, now dead. In a 180-degree reversal, the New York Times today rebuked its earlier call for immediate withdrawal despite the very likely prospect of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Today’s editorial, “Wrong Way Out of Iraq” pretended that someone else — not Pinch Sulzberger, Tufts ‘74, and his editorial board — suggested leave and let the genocide begin.
Said the New York Times today: “The United States cannot walk away from the new international terrorist front it created in Iraq. It will need to keep sufficient forces and staging points in the region to strike effectively against terrorist sanctuaries there or a Qaeda bid to hijack control of a strife-torn Iraq.”
Let’s get two things straight: The United States no more created these terrorists than it created Adolf Hitler. And two, the only jackasses suggesting this idiotic “walk away” was the New York Times.
President Bush is in it to win it.
Got that?
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The editorial pushing for the cut and run surrender was timed for a Democrat surrender surge in Congress. Since it failed and then the surge is found to be working they are now retreating to sanity on the issue while still blaming Bush for everything that might go wrong. They and the Democrats are the most irresponsible opposition in a time of war since the Civil War. The editorial and yesterday's story saying that the US will be in Iraq for years is timed to give Democrats cover for their retreat on retreating from Iraq.

Jules Crittenden has appropriate loads of ridicule for the Times various turns. See also The Strata-Sphere discussion of the editorial.
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