Last night the Lehrer News Hour had a discussion among 4 congresscritters including Jan Schakowsky of the Peoples Republic of Chicago’s North Shore who represented the Dims “Cut n’ Run” crowd. She was clearly on the defensive throughout the whole segment, agitated and continually and angrily interrupting the other 3, who all favored surge extension. She and her crowd are losing this debate and they know it.
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The retreat was led a few weeks ago by the New York Slimes when it was determined the success of the surge could not be ‘negatively controlled’.
The emphasis has been short circuited to the failings of the Iraqi government to meet milestones, as if the milestones were fixed and un movable dates to which failure to meet 100% of a ‘goal’would render GW Bush and the surge .... failures.