--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 7/31/07 2:04:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > jstein@ writes: > > > > > > point of the surge was to give the Iraqi government > > breathing room to make some political progress. > > > > Parliament has just adjourned for the month of August, > > having accomplished ZILCH. > > > > That was in the news, MDixon. I guess you must have > > missed it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Nope didn't miss a thing. No political compromises yet but 60 > pieces of > > legislation passed. Killings, executions and bombings are down. > Sunnis are > > turning on Al Qaeda and working with Coalition forces for a > change. The Democrats > > have a lot invested in the failure of the surge. If it works they > look very > > bad. > > It is such a cynical view from both sides to use the death of > men, women and children as a political pawn to score points. > really sickening and cold-hearted. Whether the surge "works" or > not, I just want this damned war to be over soon, and for us as > a country to recognize that it has solved nothing.:-)
*Nobody* is "invested in failure" in Iraq. Of all the right's calumnies, that is perhaps the most unspeakably vile. It's the old "stab in the back" strategy, dragged out and dressed up in an effort to excuse the failures that have already occurred.
