Consider that CBC and CTV never miss an opportunity to broadcast any political setback for the Bush administration on Iraq and one is tempted to ask how they managed to miss this?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has backed down from demands for a withdrawal of our troops in Iraq by next spring.
Selling voters on cut and run was always tough, but now a new UPI/Zogby Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe the Iraq war is not lost.
Beyond the achievements of our forces, the public is obviously impressed that Iraq’s five top political leaders have agreed on a series of compromises, including oil wealth distribution and provincial elections.
Since Reid and other Democratic leaders now know that outright surrender is out, they’ve decided to try for whatever they can get. “I don’t think we have to think that our way is the only way,” Reid told the Washington Post, making it clear he now seeks an anti-war alliance with shaky Republicans.
“I’m not saying, ‘Republicans, do what we want to do.’ Just give me something that you think you would like to do, that accomplishes some or all of what I want to do.”
Close their eyes, perhaps?
CBC knowingly re-spins a stale-dated version of events, one that remains the opposite of the truth; CTV clams up, turns away, and puts on Italian-frame sunglasses.
It’s getting so difficult to decide who’s the most honest.
Of course the war is not lost. Our troops are outraged (as am I) at the behaviour of the enemy. Lopping off heads and broadcasting it is simply barbarism.
The Democrats don’t really want to force a draw down as it’s their biggest election boost come ’08.
The Democrats don’t really want to force a draw down as it’s too juicy an albatross to leaving around the GOPs neck come ’08.
The Dems have really painted themselves in the corner though. The Kos types are radical and anti-war and they are running the show now. I’d say the Dems are in serious trouble.
The dems are riding a tiger. There are advantages to leaving the GOP with the troops in Iraq, as has been pointed out. As well, they have some rabid types that demand unconditional withdrawl.
How Hillary or Obama will handle them in an election is not clear, because they will dog them till they relent. It could prevent the Dems from taking power in 08 if there is enough chaos, the threat that MoveOn.org is counting on.
So the US can win militarily, never should have been an issue, the Generals who were there previously have some splainin to do…..but can it ultimately wont be about winning militarily, although that is necessary condition, as it is in Afghanistan.
There has been success, Kurdistan and an emerging one, Anbar. There has bee a major failure, Basra and Bahgdad East to the Iranian border remains up in the air.
I dont doubt America’s ability to weild power but they have to hand it over to somebody….three someones actually. Sadly the shiites need to be magnaminous in victory to make the country work and I just dont see that right now. You need Iraqi’s who are Shiite not the other way round. I am not sure the loyalty to the state outweighs loyatly to their sect.
Same problem as being Irish versus being Catholic versus protestant. Or the early days of QUebec nationalism when being Catholic was married with being French to form Quebec nationalism, but was fundametally incongant with the secular nationalists.
As somone said, many have interests in the region but none have an interest in the US occupation succeeding….aligning others (Saudi, Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait and ultimately Iran) to America’s goals will help. Ultimately the Iraqi people need to see it in their interest and benefit.
That takes time, and there is only 15 months left of that.
That takes time, and there is only 15 months left of that
15 Months is an eternity when you are staring down the barrel of a gun.
The Shiite-on-Shiite mess in Southern Iraq appears to me to be not all that critical. It’s more like the Cripps and The Bloods fighting it out for the ‘corner’. In other words it is ‘containable’.
The latest in Karbala appears to have pissed off many in the Shiite South who have now seen fully what the ‘gangs’ are capable off. Disturbing a Shiite religious festival may have been close to the last straw. It certainly gives the Maliki Government a chance to move further away from Al-Sadr, which is a ‘good thing’.
For the first time in years, I can see a glimmer of light on the horizon. One can but wish that it is not a freakin’ train.
“Don’t expect many Republicans in Congress to bite, because when Gen. Petraeus tells lawmakers this month that victory is achievable, there will be a message the White House will be delivering loud and clear: Politicians micromanaging this war are the last thing we need right now.”
Too bad that writer doesn’t realize that Petraeus isn’t doing the telling in his own words. And that he’s deluded himself into thinking that Iraq is ‘winnable’. Even the Vice President predicted that Iraq would end up an unwinnable quagmire, but still the reports of weekly bombings aren’t enough to convince the pro-war drones that we still have a role to serve in Iraq other than IED fodder.
“that we still have”
Meant “that we don’t still have a role”.
neither CBCpravda or CTV(TASS) are honest , CTV tries to hide behind a corporate facade but are often to the left of pravda. Craggy Oliver is the most embarrassing of all journalists.he has that practiced Ed Broadbent outrage act for everything.
Even the Vice President predicted that Iraq would end up an unwinnable quagmire,
The Vice President of what?
One year from now that 54% (who get it) will be 75%.
How disapointed the liberals must be in scary harry he has disapointed them
“Consider that CBC and CTV never miss an opportunity to broadcast any political setback for the Bush administration on Iraq ”
Question: can anyone identify any set-forwards on Iraq for the Bush Administration?
Anyone on here lose someone in the war? Not likely.