The Dims main plan which is eagerly carried by the MSM is criticism of anything that President Bush does or says. This has been the case since the war started.

I used to wonder if Juan Williams was a college graduate. I am beginning to believe that he is a high school drop out.

NPR's Juan Williams tried his best: "I think everybody wants to succeed who believes in the idea that we are over there and our people are at stake. I don't think there's any question about that. . . ."

Actually, Kristol's point goes to the heart of the question: "As American forces are engaged in a war in Iraq, is the key issues succeeding in that war, or making the Commander in Chief look bad?" 

When we listen to the politicans and the MSM pundits, they never raise the central issue:  Are we devoted to succeeding?  Instead, day-to-day events in Iraq are measured for their impacts on Bush's popularity, or the campaigns of declared or imagined '08 Presidential candidates, or holding Congressional seats.

Again, Williams: ". . . I think that's sort of a rhetorical tool on your part. . . ."

As opposed to the rhetoric of Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, Biden, Edwards, et al, who spew out shallow language about 'redeployment' when they mean retreat?  C'mon, Juan.

More Williams: ". . . But your analysis seems to be totally ahistorical. It's as if mistakes haven't been made repeatedlhy as if people don't feel they have been misled down this path. There has been tremendous support for this president and for this war effort, and it has come to naught and it has come to a bad place."

Once again, Williams talks about mistakes, misleading, and support for the President, while avoiding Kristol's initial and very simple quesiton:  Do you want the US to succeed in Iraq?

Brit Hume got in a final, telling rejoinder: " . . .  What you have from the Democrats is the idea, as Nancy Pelosi put it, this isn't a war to be won, this is a conflict to be resolved. And their answer is retreat. You call it redeployment. It's a euphemism, Juan! It's retreat."

Bingo!  Hume sums it up in plain language that anyone can understand.  The Dems always talk about 'resolving' Iraq through 'redeployment' without uttering the Big R word:  Retreat.  And that's not by accident or coincidence.  They want the public to view the war as a defeat, while avoiding being labeled as the Party that threw in the towel, as if the public will balme Bush for losing the war and welcome the Dems' efforts conclude it.  When the question focuses on the central issue of victory or defeat in Iraq, the Dems can't explain how establishing a 'redeployment' plan outside of the victory/defeat context (and that context has global implications), fosters our success where Bush to this point hasn't.

Once again, Kristol had Juan Williams drooling all over himself on whether DEMS want to win or lose the war in Iraq....LOL....

Juan couldn't find any cover fast enough......Mara at least knows when to shut up and let the wave roll over her......

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

This is somewhat off topic, but the liberals are always trying to tell us that one can't speak for or represent someone or even have an opinion if they are not of the same group or are not in that field of expertise, but at the same time are constantly shoving poll results from people who are not or have not been in the military down our throats to try to convince us that the war is wrong and should be abandoned.  So which point of view are they going to hold to?  They want things that are diametrically opposed to each other all the while calling others stupid.

Since today, January 22nd, is the worst (blue) day of the year, let me say this. The American public lost all seriousness when they voted in Democrats. The American public has bought into the democrats' jive and retreat strategy. Look at all the polls. I've lost all faith in my fellow Americans because they have again lost their nerve when things get rough. They have a pattern of this. Sure, the Iraq War isn't going well all the time given all the negative sound bites being rammed down the throats of Americans on a daily basis. Bill and Brit hit it on the head. The democrats want to retreat but they also want to have it both ways. They want to put forth a non-binding resolution rejecting the new strategy for Iraq but they don't go far enough. America, you want out? Then demand defeat now because you know you want it. Be honest, that's why you really voted for these nitwits. But, nooooooo, the dems want to protest and criticize with NO REAL SOLUTION OF THEIR OWN. Take away the funding or support the war and see it through, Jim Web and all boneheads like you. Do it, or shut up.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.  Air Force Motto

emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.