"it's not a drawdown."

A drawndown is when you reduce the number of troops. Is there some other meaning that we are missing here. The only one who is misleading is Mika. She is NOT a news person and is a mouthpiece and propagandist for the Democratic Party, the Jimmy Carter wing of the Democratic Party, and the MoveOn.org wing of the Democratic Party.

She is the one who is misleading because she is placing everything in the context of objective news analysis and she is anything but.

Scarborough is no better because he has evidently turned his back on his political party in the name of dollars he gets to empower this treason from Mike and the rest of the clan.

" . . in order to have credibility when you're running a war, you sort of need to have a handle on when it's going to end."

Lincoln: The south is trying to advance northward, the battles are bloody but we are having progress in their defeat. The civil war will end around April 1865 and I will be shot.

Roosevelt: We have nothng to fear but fear itself. The war will end and I will die around the same time. Truman will have to drop the bomb in Japan to accomplish this.

Mika knows her history.

get up. I'm here on the floor in a puddle of coffee and wireless keyboard starting to cackle like the Wicked Witch of the West. Or heaven forbid, Hillary. These people are killing me, they're imploding right before our eyes. Somebody please make them stop, they're killing me. What a wonderful start for a gorgeous fall weekend. Thanks NB

Perhaps someone should teach Mika how to subtract first.  Second, can you imagine Roosevelt being told he has to wrap up ww2 by  next spring or Reagan being told the cold war must end by March so the next President doesn't have to worry about it?  The left has put itself in an unenviable position of owning defeat to the point that they can't turn back and accept success.  The new line is they don't want a democrat President (if elected) to pull out of Iraq and be blamed for the ensuing catastrophe.  What a nice vision for our future.  How about winning.  I know Mika grew up in a house where she was taught to be a loser, but it is not working for her on tv.

"you're running a war you sort of need to have a handle on when it's going to end."

Ummm... No. You see, wars are complicated things. I know you have been spoiled and pampered in this wonderful nation, but wars don't come with any guarantee of a timeline. There is no "Mail in Presidential Rebate". Ok?For Christ sake, don't you see how utterly stupid that sounds? I'm glad you have enjoyed your freedoms so much that you are used to having everything you want, faster, better, more, now, and free. Your kind of whining and LYING ("This war was based on misleading info...") Don't make me pull up the list of Democrat statements saying the same same damn thing Bush is saying today. Of course, that never seems to matter to you people. Facts matter not. Opine opine opine. That's all you can do. BTW.. Chisel off some of that Revlon.

The American Revolution Continued

Did they want the President to make up a word so they could make fun of him for it? Drawdown is only misleading if you didn't know about the surge. I just can't even believe the ignorance of these people. If you know about the surge then you know the drawdown comes from it. Anyone who didn't know about the surge had to be hiding under a rock for how much negative coverage it got.

What was Bush supposed to call it? Unsurge? Desurge? What's the word Joe and Mica?

...when you're running a war you sort of need to have a handle on when it's going to end.

Funny, I don't seem to recall reading about Churchill and Roosevelt being asked for a fixed timeline for ending the war...

Democrat version: "We will push toward Berlin until the end of 1944, at which point - regardless of how far we've advanced and how many lives we've lost - we're committed to pulling our boys out and bringing them home." (At which point the Germans would've promptly re-occupied everything we'd liberated.)

Republican version: "It'll be over when we've won and they've lost. And not a day sooner. Deal with it."

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If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them!

Had Bill Clinton given that same exact speech Mika would be slobbering all over the set.

BTW, Mika, I have ALWAYS questioned our "invading" the Balkins during Clinton ...

I've seen more mass graves in Iraq than I've ever seen evidence of in the Balkins.

As for all this yammering about "lack of political progress" in Iraq ... Yeah, and what we have in the Swamp these last few years has been such a grand example of "political progress".

On that note, this word ... Political progress ... the dems are always whining over ... Well, here in the States "Progressive" has become the code-word for socialist/communist.  Are the dems crying for a socialist/commie government in Iraq?

I've fallen on the floor and can't get up due to <ROFL>.
nicely said Crash,

chuck in st paul

 BRZEZINSKI: Well, you know, I'm sorry, what really made me mad

  I thought journalists were 'citizens of the world' and as such are uninvolved observers and chroniclers of events.

"... when you're running a war you sort of need to have a handle on when it's going to end."

By the way, how is that War on Poverty going? Any end in sight for it? I'd like to see a timeline by December and be out of it by this time next year. Talk to Teddy Kennedy about that if you would. I'm sure he has a plan somewhere.

How about it?

"... when you're running a war you sort of need to have a handle on when it's going to end."

Come on, Mika, be honest. You mean while running THIS war, you need to have a handle on when it's going to end. That HAS to be what you mean, since no other war in our history has had a fixed ending date just for the sake of having one. That is the typical liberal point of view though, isn't it Mika? Hold Bush to a standard not required of any other President.

Furthermore, this just shows the ignorance of those on the left. Us pulling out of Iraq isn't going to end the war, it just delays the inevitable, which will be MORE conflict, either in Iraq, here in the U.S., or in some other country.

How about being a real journalist, Mika, and prove your menopausal musings about Bush lying us into Iraq instead of parroting back the same old tired nonsense provided to you by your moonbat handlers on the left? Come on, Mika, be a pioneer and go get us that proof. You can do it, I know you can. Jus think of how popular you will be with the moonbat crowd, when you, Mika, are the one to finally deliver the proof these people would sell their souls for. You, Mika, will be their hero!

And when you come up empty, maybe Dan Rather can help you out. But, until you come up with that proof, maybe you should save the fairy tales for your children's(if you have any) bedtime stories.

ANYONE associated with the Carter administration by position, employment, blood or marriage should NEVER say anything about ANYTHING of importance.  This woman's father was one of the single most incompetent idiot bureaucrats in the history of the world politics.  He presided over the gutting of our intelligence agencies, the creation of the Taliban, the installation of Saddam, the rise of the nutballs in Iran and funded UBL' s initial training and arming. 

Just think what the world would be like if the Shah and/or his heirs were still in power in Iran.  Iran would be like Turkey and seeking to join the EEC and maybe even NATO.  It would be an entirely different world. 

To call her father Carter's Intelligence adviser is insanity.  More like one deaf dumb and blind idiot leading another.

She and her father should skulk away in total shame and silence and never say anything about political events ever again.