Thursday, October 9, 2008

Cut and Run Liberal

The neo-cons use a lot of inflammatory terms like 'cut and run' to imply cowardice in their adversaries. (And of course those most fond of such terms never served in the military and have never been in any kind of danger, yet think nothing of putting others in danger.) Lately, however, even some of the republican faithful have been breaking ranks with the president's tiresome 'stay the course' message. After being confronted with overwhelming evidence that their 'strategy' isn't working (and their poll numbers are falling dramatically), they have adopted a new catch phrase: 'adapt and win!'. They don't really have a plan to go along with their phrase, but they don't want to admit failure, damage the prez, or give any credit to the hated liberals for being right, so they've come up with a new phrase that all flag-wrapped conservatives can get behind. How exciting.
Do you remember a few weeks ago when there was a offer from the insurgency to stop the violence if the US would present a time-table for withdrawal? Bush said no. Funny that there were no tough questions for the prez from the s0-called Liberal Media on that one.
In any case, as one who was opposed to the war in the first place, I support John Murtha's notion of redeployment. Am I a cut and run liberal? Damn right, and proud of it. But this guy says it much better.

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