The Only Plan is the Bush Plan??
I normally ignore Bush’s radio addresses since they tend to be nothing but one-sided lies without the benefit of even meager parsing from the press. But his most recent on-air vomit is just too egregious to ignore:Â
My national security team is now making our case on Capitol Hill. We recognize that many members of Congress are skeptical. Some say our approach is really just more troops for the same strategy. In fact, we have a new strategy with a new mission: helping secure the population, especially in Baghdad. Our plan puts Iraqis in the lead.Â
Others worry that we are pursuing a purely military solution that makes a political solution less likely. In fact, the sectarian violence is the main obstacle to a political solution, and the best way to help the Iraqis reach this solution is to help them put down this violence.Â
Members of Congress have a right to express their views, and express them forcefully. But those who refuse to give this plan a chance to work have an obligation to offer an alternative that has a better chance for success. To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible.
Pardon me for saying so, but are you freakin’ serious?? Well, Mr. Bush, I throw down the gauntlet and challenge you to produce the name of a single legislator who has opposed escalation and not articulated and alternate plan. Not to mention the freakin’. Iraq. Study. Group. Whose recommendations, if you recall, you pledged to follow. Oh, you sad, sad little revisionist.