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Premature Obit

Reports of the Bush war policy’s suicide appear to have been greatly exaggerated. NYT: 

WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Bush administration will assert in the next few days that progress in carrying out the new American strategy in Iraq has been satisfactory on nearly half of the 18 benchmarks set by Congress, according to several administration officials.

Didn’t they just drive a stake in that zombie!?! NYT earlier:

White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush’s Iraq strategy are collapsing around them, according to several administration officials and outsiders they are consulting. They say that inside the administration, debate is intensifying over whether Mr. Bush should try to prevent more defections by announcing his intention to begin a gradual withdrawal of American troops from the high-casualty neighborhoods of Baghdad and other cities.

Good Lord! What the devil is this!?!

Splintered GOP Unites to Block Senate Vote

Washington - Republican congressional support for President Bush’s Iraq war policy may be splintering, but enough GOP senators remained united with the president Wednesday to sidetrack legislation that would have made it harder to return military units to the war zone.

It’s horrible. They just keep coming! But wait …

Republican leaders succeeded in blocking the proposal from coming up for a final vote, but seven of their members joined 48 Democrats and one independent in trying to require the Senate to consider the proposal of Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia and Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. Still, the 56-41 vote left frustrated anti-war senators short of the 60 votes required to break the procedural filibuster.

Despite Wednesday’s defeat for the anti-war senators, the focus was on the growing number of Republican senators who turned away from the president’s policy on the war, which is now in its fifth year and has cost more than 3,600 American lives.

Well, that’s interesting. Even surrender-happy defeatists doing all they can to lose cling to glimmers of hope, focusing intently on any sign that disaster may yet be achievable. 

Topics: Iraq, media

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:10 am on Thursday, July 12, 2007

One Response to “Premature Obit”

1. saltydog Says:
   July 13th, 2007 at 10:55 am

   Traitors all.

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