C&L has
a clip of Sen. Levin on Fox & Friends talking about the whole dustup around the rethugs trashing the Democrats' proposal for a phased withdrawal to begin by the end of the year and then Gen. Casey pretty much coming out and saying the same thing.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade on several occasions asked Levin: "Why do you think the president would keep troops there past when they should be?" and "Do you think he'd keep them there one day past where they should be there or have to be in harms way?"
Levin kept coming back to Gen. Casey's statements, but he also needed to do something else, which I'll explain on the flip.
As
Mike Stark and
Dave Sirota have said, Sen. Levin needed to smack good ol' Brian Kilmeade in the mouth.
Why would it be so hard to say this:
Well, Brian, it's hard to divine the intentions or strategies of President Bush and his administration. How can I even begin to guess at what the President thinks when his administration has systematically misled and lied to the country and made an absolute mess of this War on Terror.
Vice President Cheney and Sec. of State Rice talked about the certainty of aluminum tubes that could only be used for enriching uranium, when they knew there was a high likelihood that was not the case. They talked about mobile biological weapons labs when they knew none existed. They relied on suspect information from a source, Curveball, who German intelligence officers characterized as a liar and psychologically unstable, not to mention damaging assessments from our own intelligence operations. They let bin Laden escape in Tora Bora. They passed up on two opportunities to take out Zarqawi well before he became a leader of the insurgency in Iraq. They went into Iraq with too few troops to do the job right and with no plans at all for how to counter an insurgency or how to exit Iraq. And now they just keep telling us, 'Stay the course, stay the course. Can't cut and run.'
Based on this, Brian, tell me, how I can possibly trust the President to ever do the right thing?
Sen. Levin, next time, please, smack `em in the mouth, with nothin' but the truth.