{"id":1292,"date":"2007-09-10T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2007-09-10T05:21:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T10:21:18","slug":"over-and-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Over And Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slow Joe Biden knows how to win a war.<\/a>\u00a0 Oh, yes he does.<\/p>\n

Not like any of those soldiers or anything:<\/p>\n

President Bush’s war strategy is failing and the top military commander in iraq is “dead flat wrong” for warning against major changes, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Dead flat wrong…” about…what?<\/p>\n

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“The reality is that although there’s been some mild security progress, there is in fact no security in Baghdad or Anbar province where I was dealing with the most serious problem, sectarian violence,” said Biden, a 2008 presidential candidate who recently returned from Iraq.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Which is both contradicted by the return of security to much of Anbar, and the fact that killing off Al Quaeda will help deal with the sectarian violence in the first place.<\/div>\n
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Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker were scheduled to testify before four congressional committees, including Biden’s, on Monday and Tuesday. Lawmakers will hear how the commander and the diplomat assess progress in Iraq and offer recommendations about the course of war strategy…Petraeus and Crocker will say the buildup of 30,000 troops, which bring the current U.S. total to nearly 170,000, is working better than any previous effort to quell the insurgency and restore stability. The officials also disputed suggestions that Petraeus and Crocker would recommend anything more than a symbolic reduction in troop levels and then only in the spring.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And let there be no mistake; without improvements in security, all the barbering about political changes is a waste of time.\u00a0\u00a0 Like, for example…:<\/div>\n

Biden, signaling that tough questioning awaits the pair from majority Democrats and moderate Republicans, said Petraeus’ assessment missed the point. Biden, D-Del., said focusing on a political solution, such as by creating more local control, was the only way to foster national reconciliation among warring factions.<\/p>\n

“I really respect him, but I think he’s dead flat wrong,” Biden said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Creating political control in a situation where people are afraid to go to work in the morning is…<\/p>\n

…well, almost too stupid to be Joe Biden.\u00a0 This is Barbara Boxer-level cretinism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slow Joe Biden knows how to win a war.\u00a0 Oh, yes he does. Not like any of those soldiers or anything: President Bush’s war strategy is failing and the top military commander in iraq is “dead flat wrong” for warning against major changes, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday. “Dead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}