Dan Senor explains Iraq: "It's sort of a one step forward, two steps back"

[Human Torch]

Guest host John Kasich, on "The O'Reilly Factor," played the clip of Rumsfeld's "appeasing Hitler" speech and was then treated to the dazzling insights of Mr. Campbell Brown, A.K.A. Dan Senor.

:patriot:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,211530,00.html



DAN SENOR, FORMER COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY SPOKESMAN IN IRAQ: He's talking about people who believe that we would be better off, John, if we withdrew from our military engagements, whether they're in Iraq, whether they're in Afghanistan, whether it's a strong posture, vis-a-vis Hezbollah.

KASICH: Who's saying we ought to withdraw from Afghanistan? I haven't heard anybody say that.

SENOR: There are people — there are many leftist centered activists, political activists.

KASICH: Who? Name me one.

SENOR: Moveon.org has talked about that we should be scaling back our resources in places, our military engagements. They haven't been specific about Afghanistan but they've been specific about Iraq.

KASICH: That's a riff...

SENOR: John, the important point is, look, we are on the offense now. It's complicated, it's ugly, it's messy, and it involves some rough periods like we've experienced over the last few days and we'll be experiencing for the next couple of years. But the fact is, is some of the people we are fighting are sort of pushing back a little bit. It's sort of a one step forward, two steps back. Whether it's Hezbollah pushing back, whether it's the insurgency or the civil war going on in Iraq that's pushing back, whether it's threats against Karzai that are going on that are pushing back. And if we withdraw right now, we have some 140,000 troops in Iraq right now, just take that engagement alone, and if we withdraw it would be the single largest engagement that was withdrawn immediately or according to a timetable in American military history. And imagine the signal that would send to the war. It's an important moment.

[C_U_L8R]

1. No wonder republicans are ass-backwards

one step forward two steps back indeed

[robertarctor]

2. You left out the later part where Paul Hackett rips him a new one

Even though Prav- I mean, Fox News had Hackett's volume turned down, he got in some choice zingers at chickenhawk Senor-Brown. What an arrogant, entitled chump that guy is.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It's sort of a one step forward, two steps back"

I thought it was "Last throes", or was it "Long hard slog" or was it "breathtaking pictures". Make up your mind will you please?

[Lindacooks]

4. And with 'one step forward, two steps back' you eventually

end up way back before you started.

What a maroon.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Is that a Polka, or a Waltz? - I furget

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