Iraq: They're On The Run

Not just al Qaeda, but it would seem the Democrats, too. But then, when your stock in trade is limited to surrender or retreat, should we really be surprised?

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party's efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.

Clyburn, in an interview with the washingtonpost.com video program PostTalk, said Democrats might be wise to wait for the Petraeus report, scheduled to be delivered in September, before charting next steps in their year-long struggle with President Bush over the direction of U.S. strategy.

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

"Democrats might be wise to wait for the Petraeus report"

They would have been wise to be reading Yon, Roggio, Fumento, etc the past year rather than the Daily Kos ;->

[Terry Gain]

But P.A. reading those guys would have created some very distressful cognitive dissonance among those who are quite happy to see their country fail so long as it will advance their political careers. Such is the dilemma of today's Democrats.

It's nice to see that even the NYT can no longer disregard all evidence that the Surge is working.

As it becomes clear even to the leftards among us that the Surge is working they would do well to remember that they heard it here first. Right, Boob in Stamford?

[Purple Avenger]

I'm sad to report that Bob's head exploded last week. He's been in the local hospital's "terminal BDS" unit ever since.

[Phoenix]

I wonder if SurgeOn Lardass is in the room with the American flags and soldiers as wallpaper? You know....the debriefing room. I'm sure he's on I.V. anti-psychotics mixed with W. Virginia mountain hootch.

[templar knight]

Yep, the boob's head exploded, and he changed his nick to chris.

Hehehe, good one, Phoenix.

[Fred Beloit]

Excuse me but I'm afraid you people are not treating a certain gentleman with the respect to which he is entitled. I surmise that you are unaware that Mr. Christamfordmum is an author, not widely read perhaps, but one who has garnered no small acclaim from book critics.
In 2001 he went to the market with "Military Holes, Pits, Embrasures, Tunnels and Other Places Hard to See Into" (Libros Nos, Ltd, Putnams Ditch, CT). He followed that up in 2003 with "The How and Why Book of Rectal Diaphragms" (Two Volumes, Introduction by T. Hilton Wiseacre, Assoc. Deg. in Geriatric Psychometry, Pickle City Comm. Col., PCCC Press). In 2005 came "Hirsute Greeks, a Photo Treasury" (Aperture Books, Bridgeport,CT). And finally this year "Pelts, Coats, and Merkins for Dummies" (Department of Really Good Islamic Studies, De Paul University Press, Chicago).
May I suggest a little more courtesy might be in order.

[templar knight]

Well, now, Fred, I beg to differ. I have been very respectful to that gentleman to which you refer. Considering the provocation, I should have hunted him down like the dog he is, and forced him to spend days reading the National Review Online, made him write love letters to Anne Coulter and eat grits every meal, and have him wash it down with Coca-Cola. But you know how nice I am.

[Fred Beloit]

Good, Temp, and don't forget the hush puppies, lots of sweet hush puppies, and maybe a moon pie as well.

[templar knight]

He'll get none of the delectable moon pies, Fred, especially the banana. My all time favorite. Yum-Yum! But maybe I'll substitute with R-C Cola.

That moon pie reference reminds me of one of those great moments in time, Fred. My cousin and I were in a freshman geology class in college, and the discussion had somehow gotten around as to whether man had really landed on the moon, or whether it was somehow staged. Many of the liberal students were conspiracy-minded(shock), and preferred the staged theory, when my cousin, out of the blue, said he had documented proof man had landed on the moon. When asked to produce the evidence, he pulled something out of his backpack, and proceeded with this explanation, "Where do you think these moon pies came from?"

[Fred Beloit]

I'm glad I didn't go to HS my cousin, he didn't go to college. He at times carried a gun to HS. Illegal then in Chicago, illegal now.

[templar knight]

Wow, Fred. I carried my deer rifle to HS during deer season, and so did many others, as that gave us a head start on the afternoon hunt. Legal then, illegal now. What a difference a few years makes. Another time, another country, I guess. I miss those days when people were trusted, and troublemakers were sent packing from our schools.