Snow on Iraq.."president’s made it obvious we’re going to win"

[RedEarth]

Sen. John Warner (R-VA), one the President Bush’s staunchest allies, now says we are moving “sideways” and “backwards” in Iraq. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) agrees and says we need to find a way out.

During today’s White House press conference, Tony Snow was asked a simple question about Iraq: “Are we winning?” Here was Snow’s response:

QUESTION: Just a simple question: Are we winning?

SNOW: We’re making progress. I don’t know. How do you define winning?

The fact is, in taking on the war on terror — no, let me put it this way: The president’s made it obvious we’re going to win. And that means ultimately providing an Iraq that is safe, secure and an ally in the war on terror. And at any given time, as you’ve seen in previous wars, there are going to be spikes in violence.

More than 53 American soldiers have died in Iraq this month already. Things are going so badly that even Tony Snow, who is paid to spin the news in the most positive light possible for the administration, can’t claim that the United States is winning.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/16/snow-i-dont-know/

[LonelyLRLiberal]

1. Why, why, why would anyone want the job of covering for the idiot-in-chief

Tony, it's Hard Work being Presudunt, and it's Hard Work being a paid liar, huh?

[gratuitous]

2. "How do you define winning?"

Seems to me old Tony ought to be answering, not asking, that question.

[BOSSHOG]

7. Check on 7 November tony, we'll define it for you

[Aviation Pro]

10. November 8th....

...will be the definitive answer to the question when ole Bullshit Snow has to account for the Democratic landslide.

[bridgit]

3. Snow is the ultimate smart-ass...

the only thing "obvious" is that The Bush Doctrine is a failure :thumbsdown:

[Xipe Totec]

4. How do you define winning?

if by safe, you mean under unrelenting attack,

and if by secure, you mean inside the Green Zone,

and by ally, you mean somebody who hates our guts and wants to kill us,

and by spikes in violence, you mean ever increasing casualty levels,

and by president, you mean the chimp occupying the White House,

then yes, we are definitely winning.

[saltpoint]

5. Well, if Tony says it's so, it must be so. The president wouldn't

tell us we're gonna win if it weren't so, would he?

Well, would he?

And that question is not for Democrats. It's for the Republicans who stood in precinct lines in the goddam RAIN for hours in places like Cincinnati and Dallas and elsewhere to support Bush-Cheney over Kerry-Edwards. What were you fools thinking? Weeks before the first bomb fell on Baghdad, literally millions of people poured into world capitals across the glove to ask the U.S. president to reconsider his rash and cruel strategies. And there was universal condemnation over Abu Ghraib, in which our government presided over overt torture and humiliation of human beings, and yet you morons still voted Bush-Cheney?

[porphyrian]

6. Yeah, they'll declare that they've won, possibly more than once,...

...and they'll blame anything that proves otherwise on Clinton.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. But, Tony, if Bush intends to leave the 'Iraq problem' for 'future

presidents', how does Bush decide we're 'going to win'?

[Aviation Pro]

9. Little Monkey can state his delusional outlook over and over....

...and again and again, but

THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT FUCKING TRUE!!!!

[Parche]

11. win?

Win what?
The Iraqi superbowl??
The Iraqi world series?
The Iraqi finals??

What do we as a country 'win' in Iraq??

If this is winning in Iraq, I would hate to see what losing is.......

[elehhhhna]

12. Who knew someone could suck more than Scotty McMoron?

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Any idea when, you jerkoff? (To the nearest hundred years would be fine).

These people are totally delusional.

[DavidDvorkin]

14. He'll accomplish victory through the power of his will!

Hitler believed in that, as well. Events proved him wrong.

[elehhhhna]

15. Tony's twin: Baghdad Bob

[butterfly77]

16. What does he mean how do you define winning..

these asses have been tellin us for years that they won't leave until the job is done. So, what I am hearing is if they don't know when the job is done then how can they tell if they are winning.