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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (77465)	2/16/2007 4:59:06 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Too early for Faux News to spread lies about Obama too, I guess?

To: jlallen who wrote (77465)	2/16/2007 5:05:51 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

If they are going down so much before it is apparent that the Dumbyasscalation is a failure (and it will be a failure), imagine what will happen when it becomes clear that it IS a miserable failure!

To: jlallen who wrote (77465)	2/16/2007 5:12:12 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Dumbyasscalation failure. The first visible signs... "You're going to have to -- you're going to have some opportunities to judge very quickly," one senior administration official said at an official background briefing on January 10, a few hours before Bush's prime-time announcement. "The Iraqis are going to have three brigades within Baghdad within a little more than a month. They have committed to trying to get one brigade in, I think, by the first of February, and two more by the 15th," the official said. "So people are going to be able to see pretty quickly that the Iraqis are or are not stepping up. And that provides the ability to judge." [--------------------------------------------------------------] But at a Pentagon press conference yesterday, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Peter Pace acknowledged that only two of those three Iraqi brigades are there: "You've got two of the Iraqi brigades in -- that were going to plussed up in Baghdad in Baghdad now. The third one is moving this month," Pace said. Other press reports suggest that even those two brigades are not anywhere near full strength. And action in Baghdad seems thus far to be almost entirely led by Americans, in stark contrast to what was promised.