Posted on 11/13/2007, 12:56:06 AM by lancer256
Listening to the Democrats denying our progress in Iraq is reminiscent of a high school debate where one team gets stuck with the wrong side of the issue and has to defend it valiantly anyway. But in real life, especially when life-and-death consequences are involved, such artificial, unreasonable positions are not valiant but disgraceful.
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson whether his plan to withdraw all troops from Iraq was outdated now that the surge "shows signs of working." Wallace noted that U.S. casualties for October were the lowest since March 2006 and civilian casualties, murders and roadside bomb attacks have all fallen dramatically.
Straight-faced, Richardson replied, "First of all, I don't believe the surge is working. … You don't measure progress by body counts."
Oh? You sure could have fooled Richardson's fellow Democrats who used that yardstick with a vengeance prior to the surge.
But that was before the facts became inconvenient. Since the surge has been working, many Democrats have shifted the goal posts to say we may only measure our progress by political successes.
(Excerpt) Read more at davidlimbaugh.com ...
Wasn't the media measuring our "failure" by the body count?
What a double standard.
The rats measure defeat by what happens in elections. They want defeat in Iraq, to prevent defeat in 2008.....
Why is it that democrats, democrat operatives, and democrat apologists all use the term 'first of all' without ever getting to the 'second of all' comment?????
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