The pressure to declare victory.
After the vote today the Bush administration must be feeling immense pressure to claim a false victory in the surge thus far, but the competing pressure is that if they do, they have no political leeway when the violence returns to normal.
Expect the surrogates to be out on Sunday trumpeting success and blasting the Dems as "too negative" and "nervous nellies."
(The NYTimes prints the headline the administration wants, "Baghdad Plan Is a ‘Success,’ Iraq Prime Minister Tells Bush," but the AP is hewing a little closer to reality, "Jury remains out on Baghdad crackdown.")
Expect the surrogates to be out on Sunday trumpeting success and blasting the Dems as "too negative" and "nervous nellies."
(The NYTimes prints the headline the administration wants, "Baghdad Plan Is a ‘Success,’ Iraq Prime Minister Tells Bush," but the AP is hewing a little closer to reality, "Jury remains out on Baghdad crackdown.")
posted by mikevotes at
10:32 PM
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With the Baghdad "crackdown" still in it's infancy, it's duration as conveniently measured in hours as days, the knee-jerk declarations seem baldly patronizing; comical even.
I'm sure Bush wants to declare success ASAP, but how then will he fill his remaining 23 months? Goading Iran, probably. Things would be so much easier for George if he simply had the divine powers he feels he so richly deserves.
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-epm, at 4:13 PM
I think in history, the incompetence is going to be almost as big a knock as the policies and claims of presidential power.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 5:09 PM
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