With all the hoopala over Karl Rove's reprehensible
comments, another slam against Democrats patriotism was leveled by Senator James
Inhofe during an exchange with General Abizaid at today's Senate hearings. :
"When I look back here, at what I see is happening in Washington, within the Beltway, I've never seen the lack of confidence greater," Gen. Abizaid said.
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., sympathized and told the generals to take heart.
"I think we all know that the cut-and-run caucus is always alive and well," Mr. Inhofe said. "It doesn't matter what war it is, what conflict it is, and it certainly is today."
The cut-and-run caucus? This from the we-don't-know-what-the-hell-we're-doing-in-Iraq caucus? And what prompted this exchange? A discussion about how well it's
really going in Iraq if they could just get the good news reported...
That's right, things are going just
fine in Iraq:
At the Senate hearing,
Mr. Rumsfeld and three of the nation's top military commanders declared that despite daily car bombs and casualties and a U.S. death toll of more than 1,700 service members since the war began in March 2003, reports that the war is going badly are incorrect.
"Any who say we have lost or are losing are flat wrong," Mr. Rumsfeld declared. "We are not."
They then trotted out the standard "good news" to prove those last throes are just around the corner...the new government is "making progress" on their constitution, the training of Iraqi security forces is going swimmingly...ummmm...that about covered the good news. They seemed quite annoyed that all that positive news was being ignored in favor of pesky daily bombings, assassinations and whatnot.
If it wasn't so damned infuriating and tragic, it would be downright funny.