Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
The White House has now embarked on a public information campaign to convince the American people that it knows what it's doing in Iraq, complete with a 35-page National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. [Didn't the President land on an aircraft carrier and claim major combat operations were over ... oh, I don't know .... eighteen months ago? Okay, then.]
It's too early to see how this will play, but it looks like a warmed over set of right-reactionary talking points about how Iraq is now the "central front in the war on terror" and that "failure is not an option". There is some further detail as to what's going on in Iraq, but noticeably, there are no benchmarks for progress on economic reconstruction, troop training, or ... well ... anything. One is thus forced to wonder how the White House plans on measuring its success.
Despite some liberal quivering that this was going to be Bush's pivot-on-a-dime speech, Atrios had this one right. I was worried for a minute too, until I realized that no one in any position of authority in the White House was confirming any specifics of a troop withdrawl.
Update: What do C.S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Joel Coen, Garry Shandling, Rahm Emanuel (!!), Janet Napolitano, Don Cheadle, and Mariano Rivera all have in common? They have the same birthday as me!
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updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 09:27 01 December 2005
