Comments on: Oliver North Nixes Bush’s Iraq “Surge” Plan

By: ES

ES — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:18:20 +0000

If I remember correctly what Mr. North had opined in the article, he is not against the rise of troop levels in Iraq? He said Senators McCain and Lieberman were lying through their teeth that people on the ground wanted more guns to help fight the insurgency, as had Senator Snowe who was on the same trip and spoke to same people. North shows the surge plan should be where the extra folks are to be used to train the various Iraqi battalions to take over the job in which the â€œIraqi boysâ€? are to do.

Unfortunately for the conservative Republicans, no one is standing up to the public drum beaters of William Kristol, Fred Barnes, Rush Limbaugh, the Kiddie Korner group (The Corner), Town Hall website, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, as well as other folks. These folks are placing their arguments as the face of what the GOP strategy should be. North is not a RINO, but who in either the paleo-conservative group or RINO group are standing up to these folks who just blubber on?

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:37:48 +0000

Hahaha, Davebo. Yes, North does have some experience with the Iranians.

By: the talking dog

the talking dog — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:23:59 +0000

Oliver WHO? If he disagrees with our President, he must not be very bright, or very important.

By: Kim Ritter

Kim Ritter — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:53:47 +0000

“More bad news for President George W. Bush. If this keeps up, the only people strongly endorsing his impending plan for a â€œsurgeâ€? (escalation) of troops in Iraq will be Rush, Sean, John Mc. and Joe L.”

That’s not exactly true, Joe. You forgot Laura Bush and Barney!
What’s been amazing is the speed with which Bush unloaded anyone in the military leadership who didn’t think the surge was a swell idea. Now he can still claim that his course is determined by the leadership on the ground.
The surge is nothing but the crassest of political ploys designed to enable the president to toss this hot potato to the unlucky winner of the ’08 race. All he’s got to do is send in 20,000 more recruits to show that he got the message the American people sent in November, and then hold tight. The next president will then have squandered W’s “victory” when we lose over there. That’s why no one with any military know-how is endorsing this. Colin Powell may have delivered a doctored speech at the UN in 2003, but I still trust him more than this president. He will be seen as a laughingstock in history.

By: Davebo

Davebo — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:37:09 +0000

Word is North suggested an alternative. Sell the Shiite militias and the Sunni Militias some Silkworm missiles, and use the proceeds to fight terrorism in British Columbia.