The REVIEWS ARE IN to Bush's speech! "Cherry-picking history";"act of desperation"

[Bluebear]

-- Reaction to President Bush's speech on Iraq at the Veterans of Foreign Wars' convention Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.:

"The president's surge was supposed to create the political space for national reconciliation. Instead the politics have reached total gridlock, while the security situation remains essentially unchanged. By the President's own measures the surge has failed." _ Ilan Goldenberg, policy director of National Security Network in Washington.

"The speech was an act of desperation to scare the American people into staying the course in Iraq. He's distorted the facts, painting all of the people in Iraq as being on the same side which is simply not the case. Iraq is a religious civil war." _ Lawrence Korb, assistant defense secretary under President Reagan and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington.

"Bush is cherry-picking history to support his case for staying the course. What I learned in Vietnam is that U.S. forces could not conduct a counterinsurgency operation. The longer we stay there, the worse it's going to get." _ Ret. Army Brig. Gen. John Johns, a counterinsurgency expert who served in Vietnam.

"The president emphasized the violence in the wake of American withdrawal from Vietnam. But this happened because the United States left too late, not too early. It was the expansion of the war that opened the door to Pol Pot and the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. The longer you stay the worse it gets." _ Steven Simon, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations....MORE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082201952_pf.html

[rndmprsn]

1. as usual...all lies

lies lies lies...

[aquart]

2. Aww, nobody buys Georgie's crap anymore. Poor Georgie.

[liberal N proud]

3. That fucker has balls citing Vietnam in front of those who fought it

I would like to see something about the reaction of the Veterans group. Not the leaders but the rank and file VFW membership.

[JackBeck]

4. Brent Budowsky was just on Randi's show for an hour.

And he thinks that Bush really stepped in it today. That his perfectly staged PR campaign for the "surge" will collapse with this one speech.

[roamer65]

5. AWOL should have known better than to bring up Vietnam.

This is gonna be more fun to watch than a good 'ol fashioned demolition derby.
:evilgrin:

[spanone]

6. * shamelessly uses veterans to promote his illegal war

[HuffleClaw]

7. they spent YEARS getting all offended when the iraq/vietnam comparison was made

and NOW they are doing it themselves? what idiot thought this would be a good idea? surely rove isn't this dumb.

on edit: it occurs to me that like so many of their other ploys, this one is aimed only at their crumbling base.

[Disturbed]

8. "crumbling base"?

The "haves & have more" will remain on board the bus until it speeds over the cliff.

[Canuckistanian]

10. As idiotic as Rove was

I think his absence is being felt today...

[w8liftinglady]

9. has anyone from IAVA or VietNam Vets against the War posted a comment?

[DeepModem Mom]

11. K&R

[mcctatas]

12. kinda off topic, but wtf is up with chimpy's enunciation of certain

words...mainly anything with an "s" in it. Does he think it makes him sound smarter? For the record it doesn't.....

[Bluebear]

13. peninshula is my favorite

idiot.