{"id":641,"date":"2007-09-12T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/tell-democrats-that-bush-will-not-run-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T13:41:11","slug":"tell-democrats-that-bush-will-not-run-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Tell Democrats that Bush will not run in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it’s hard for Democrats to understand, but they won’t be able to run against President Bush next year in November. I don’t who they’ll be running against, but it won’t be President Bush\u00c2\u00a0 – so the fact that they’re campaigning based on their opposition to the Bush Administration’s policy in Iraq is fruitless. From the Wall Street Journal:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The second day of congressional testimony by the two top U.S. officials in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, gave presidential contenders from both parties a chance to serve up views on Mr. Bush’s troop surge. Mr. Bush is expected to endorse the general’s plan for troop reduction in Iraq in a White House speech tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

After a relatively mild reception Monday in the House, Gen. Petraeus and Mr. Crocker yesterday faced heavy bipartisan skepticism in the Senate as they outlined plans to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq gradually through July. They reiterated hopes that Iraq’s warring factions will find ways to reconcile.<\/p>\n

The men went before two Senate panels heavy with presidential contenders. Three Democratic hopefuls — Sens. Joseph Biden of Delaware, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Barack Obama of Illinois — didn’t question Gen. Petraeus’s assessment that the larger presence of U.S. troops has lowered violence. Rather, they suggested that the American sacrifices were being made in the service of an overall strategy that has little chance of success. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York was the most critical of Gen. Petraeus, saying his report on improving security conditions “required a willing suspension of disbelief.” She then cited other statistics that suggested little to no progress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we get it, Democrats, you don’t like the War in Iraq – so what’s YOUR plan? All we hear is criticism and about plans for withdrawal (Gateway Pundit<\/a> reports Bush is even ahead of them on that) – but how do we defeat the scourge of radical Islam? I know Democrats have been running against Bush for the last seven years, but now it’s time to run FOR something because president Bush isn’t going to be the opponent next year. I can’t emphasize that enough.<\/p>\n

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post<\/a> tells us that even though Hillary opposes the Bush Administration and the Petraeus report, she doesn’t mind getting in on the photo ops that go along with them;<\/p>\n

Clinton, herself a member of the Armed Services Committee, at first entered the hearing room largely unnoticed; she then left and reentered moments later as part of Petraeus’s entourage — basking in the clicks of hundreds of camera shutters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pretty damn petty and opportunistic if you ask me. And Obama used his seven minutes for a speech;<\/p>\n

In his seven minutes of questioning time, Obama seemed to be practicing for today’s speech. “This continues to be a disastrous foreign policy mistake,” he said. “And we are now confronted with the question: How do we clean up the mess and make the best out of a situation in which there are no good options?”<\/p>\n

He then ridiculed President Bush for “suggesting somehow that we are . . . kicking A-S-S. How can we have a president making that assessment?”<\/p>\n

Stump speech over, Obama observed that he was left with “very little time to ask questions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So instead of asking questions, becoming informed, and appearing like he was interested in what the General had to say, Obama decided to perform for the cameras instead. Good move, Rock Star.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden, the only Democrat with a plan, a plan that harkens back to the days of the British Empire’s partitioning of the whole of the Middle East, but a plan nonetheless, couldn’t help but drag out the GAO report, leaked last week (S.A. Miller, Washington Times<\/a>);<\/p>\n

Mr. Biden, who has proposed partitioning the country to separate Sunni, Shi’ites and Kurds prior to a U.S. troop withdrawal rather than a rapid pullout, challenged the general’s report of decreased sectarian violence.<\/p>\n

The senator pointed to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report last week that disputed Army statistics showing such a decrease.<\/p>\n

Gen. Petraeus said the GAO findings were based on data that were at least five weeks old, compared with his report, which used statistics compiled up until Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At least the general was kind enough to Joe Hairplugs not to mention that the GAO report was written from statistics by math geeks, not\u00c2\u00a0written by\u00c2\u00a0experienced warriors with dusty boots.<\/p>\n

Like I said, the Democrats have been running\u00c2\u00a0AGAINST Republicans so long, they still haven’t figured out that at some point they need to be FOR something. Simply saying that withdrawing a brigade every month will get us out of Iraq by the end of next year isn’t a plan – it isn’t a strategy.<\/p>\n

If the Democrats want to prove that they really are concerned about national security, we need to see particulars with hard facts that show us they know what they’re talking about.<\/p>\n

At this point, while they’re apparently getting their\u00c2\u00a0strategic\u00c2\u00a0advice from the Code Pinkazoids<\/a> (commentary and photos courtesy of Wordsmith at Flopping Aces) and the Kozbots, they’d do well to stay away from anyone in uniform above the rank of recruit to keep from looking like idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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