(Rep. Walter) Jones: Bush needs a 'playbook' in Iraq

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Jones: Bush needs a 'playbook' in Iraq

JACKSONVILLE - Football coaches have a tendency to spout war clichés to their players. After a year of deliberation and research, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones is now using football to describe the war in Iraq.

The way Jones, R-N.C., sees it, the war in Iraq is being fought without a playbook and no clear path into the end zone. That's why, in June, Jones proposed a resolution calling for President Bush to establish a plan for withdrawing American forces from Iraq.

"All we are asking for is that the president develop a strategy for the fourth quarter," Jones said Wednesday after speaking at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville. "I have spent over a year evolving to this position: If you don't have a fourth-quarter strategy, then you aren't going to win the game.

"We are not asking the president to have a fourth-quarter strategy for certain. But what is victory? We've got to have victory, but let us get a better understanding of what victory is."

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[daleo]

1. Maybe it is time to punt. n/t

[ECH1969]

2. Walter Jones is an idiot

There is no victory from having a timetable for leaving Iraq. Just as there is no victory from staying in Iraq.

[Erika]

3. You said it all

We have an idiot as a president.

[AlamoDemoc]

4. you wrote;

"There is no victory from having a timetable for leaving Iraq."

maybe you should volunteer in the army until there is no timetable to leave Iraq....and then, and only then can we have a man-power to sustain such occupation

[teryang]

5. The football analogy is for simpletons

It's over in Iraq. The two by four just gets bigger as time goes by. The treasury is needlessly drained, more lives are squandered, and the ranks of the trained unconventional fighters against us grow daily.