The Fog Over Iraq

[rodeodance]

Listening to brooks on pbs he is critical of Bush. but here he disses the dems for no plans.
we have Feingold, murtha, biden and others.--but redeployment was off the table for our Pres.!



http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/opinion/11brooks.html?th&emc=th

January 11, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The Fog Over Iraq
By DAVID BROOKS
If the Democrats don’t like the U.S. policy on Iraq over the next six months, they have themselves partly to blame. There were millions of disaffected Republicans and independents ready to coalesce around some alternative way forward, but the Democrats never came up with anything remotely serious.

The liberals who favor quick exit never grappled with the consequences of that policy, which the Baker-Hamilton commission terrifyingly described. The centrists who believe in gradual withdrawal never explained why that wouldn’t be like pulling a tooth slowly. Joe Biden, who has the most intellectually serious framework for dealing with Iraq, was busy yesterday, at the crucial decision-making moment, conducting preliminary fact-finding hearings, complete with forays into Iraqi history.

The Democrats have been fecund with criticisms of the war, but when it comes to alternative proposals, a common approach is social Darwinism on stilts: We failed them, now they’re on their own.

So we are stuck with the Bush proposal as the only serious plan on offer. The question is, what exactly did President Bush propose last night? The policy rollout has been befogged by so much spin and misdirection it’s nearly impossible to figure out what the president is proposing.

[kevinmc]

1. fecund .... He just wanted to use this word .. 8-) ..n/t

[Cobalt-60]

2. he's stalling

Certainly I'm not the only one that noticed that the "surge" is scheduled to last until the chimp is out of office.
They'll do anything to keep the war going.
The financial plug will have to be pulled.
That was how these same profiteers were stopped in Viet Nam.

[rock]

3. The Democrats who did not make the mess

have to clean it up? Except there's a big turd standing in the way (shaped like a 'w').