How Does He Do That With a Straight Face?
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on February 18th, 2007 9:31 am by HL
Snow disputes claim that Iraq is blunder
AP
Excerpt
WASHINGTON – The White House on Sunday disagreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record)’s claim that the Iraq war was “the worst foreign policy mistake” in U.S. history.
He said President Bush should not see votes in Congress in opposition of his new Iraqi strategy as a rebuke.
“The strategy has barely had a chance to begin working,” Snow said.
The House passed a nonbinding resolution Friday that rejected the president’s 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq. The vote put Bush on the defensive going into a far more consequential confrontation over paying for the plan.
On Saturday, Senate Republicans foiled a Democratic bid to repudiate Bush’s deployment of additional combat troops. The 56-34 vote fell four short of the 60 needed, but Democrats quickly claimed victory, noting that a majority of senators voted against the escalation.On Saturday, Senate Republicans foiled a Democratic bid to repudiate Bush’s deployment of additional combat troops. The 56-34 vote fell four short of the 60 needed, but Democrats quickly claimed victory, noting that a majority of senators voted against the escalation.
“This war is a serious situation,” Reid said Saturday. “It involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. … We find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.”
Snow disagreed.
“The war is tough, but the solution is not to get out. It is to provide the kinds of resources and reinforcements our forces need to get the job done, and at the same time say to the Iraqis `You guys got to step up,'” Snow responded.
H.L.s Take
So Snow is blaming the newly elected Democratic majority for not getting resources and reinforcements to the troops, when for years Bush and the republicans have been sending them out in unarmoured vehicles, wearing inferior body armour (they were forbidden by the army to buy the better body armour even with their own money.) in Helicopters that can’t stop crashing, they are sending solders out on third and fourth tours becuase no one will volunteer for this debacle, but this is all the newly elected democrats fault. Tony Snow the lying robot. You gotta love Bush’s press secretarys first it was Ari Fleisher who had to step down so he could cop an immunity deal in the Scooter Libby case., then it was Scott Mc Clellan who was so even more of a liar, he got tossed out in one of Bush’s shakeups to make it look like he was doing something. Now we have Tony Snow, the long time Fox News reporter and Bush cheerleader. You have to hand it to him though, his facial expressions never change when he tells those whoppers.
Heres an H.L. Comics Flashback from April 26, of last year called
February 18th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
it is a blunder
we need a 250,000 troop surge for six months
then wrap it up and come on home
February 20th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Well HL your comments again are wrong or out dated. “Bush and the republicans have been sending them out in unarmoured vehicles, wearing inferior body armour (they were forbidden by the army to buy the better body armour even with their own money.) in Helicopters that can’t stop crashing, they are sending solders out on third and fourth tours becuase no one will volunteer for this debacle”.
To start with the body armor is there and is the top stuff, the problem is that most of them don’t use it because it is to bulky. The vehicles are armored and have been for a long time. The helicopters are having problems with the sand and they have been trying to fix that problem since the first war. And as for troops having to do 3 and 4 tours because no one will enlist is the best lie yet since the Armys 06 enlistment was 15% higher than they were wanting and the 07 enlistment isn’t slowing down.
You talk about the Republicans doing nothing but lieing to the people and you post the same things here. Nothing but lies and hope that people will not check things out for themselves. People like you are just as much to blame about the condition of our political system as the polititions because you are only here for one thing and that is to promote what you think the governments job is. Which from what I have seen is to get the government involved in as much of the publics life as possible.
February 21st, 2007 at 6:11 am
You are so full of shit. So you are going to tell me that they are not sending guys over there for a 3rd and 4th time. Guys that don’t want to go back. Show the proof, lets see the link. Check out Wednesdays posts for more ways Bush is screwing over our soldiers