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These smart guys are good. They're very good.

We just haven't figured out what they're good for!

Nice job. And fun to read!

RICHARD COHEN, Washington Post, 11/6/01: "Whatever the case, this war appears to be behind schedule. The administration, of course, will not say so. But this administration is already operating from a credibility deficit. . . . At the Pentagon, the briefings more and more resemble the ones conducted daily during the Vietnam War."

JACOB HEILBRUNN, Los Angeles Times, 11/4/01: A young and inexperienced president from a dynasty surrounds himself with experts. Early in his presidency, he announces a global crusade on behalf of freedom. No price, he announces, is too high to pay. Step by step, he becomes progressively embroiled in a war in a small country mired in civil war and located near a vital industrial region.

Sound familiar? This was the situation confronting John F. Kennedy in Vietnam. It is also the one that George W. Bush faces in Afghanistan. So far, his administration has bungled the challenge. Despite Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's claim that critics are looking for "instant gratification," the war effort is in deep trouble. The United States is not headed into a quagmire; it's already in one. The U.S. is not losing the first round against the Taliban; it has already lost it. Soon, a new credibility gap will emerge as the Pentagon attempts to massage the news.

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, The Independent, 11/2/01: In Vietnam the U.S. dropped more explosives than in the Second World War but still couldn't stop the Viet Cong. . . . Meanwhile the popular expectation of a knockout blow against the Taliban has been cruelly disappointed. Remember the optimistic remarks a couple of weeks back about the way American bombs were eviscerating the enemy? This has given way to sombre comment about the Taliban's dogged resistance. Evidently our leaders gambled on the supposition that the unpopularity of the regime would bring about the Taliban's rapid collapse. And they also seem to have assumed that it would not be too difficult to put together a post-Taliban government. This was a series of misjudgments. . . . Vietnam should have reminded our generals that bombing has only a limited impact on decentralized, underdeveloped, rural societies. . . . All of this raises questions about the competence of our national leadership.

R.W. APPLE, The New York Times, 10/31/01: Like an unwelcome specter from an unhappy past, the ominous word "quagmire" has begun to haunt conversations among government officials and students of foreign policy, both here and abroad. . . . Today, for example, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld disclosed for the first time that American military forces are operating in Northern Afghanistan, providing liaison to "a limited number of the various opposition elements." Their role sounds suspiciously like that of the advisers sent to Vietnam in the early 1960s.

COKIE ROBERTS, ABC NEWS, 10/28/01 (to Donald Rumsfeld): "The perception is that this war the last three weeks is not going very well."

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, CNN LATE EDITION, 10/28/01: "We're going to have to put troops on the ground. We're going to have to put them in force. It's going to take a very big effort. It won't be accomplished through air power alone."

MAUREEN DOWD, The New York Times, 10/28/01: As Rudyard Kipling's Kim reports back to his British spymasters, from the mountainous moonscape of Afghanistan, "Certain things are not known to those who eat with forks." President Bush has been lured through the high-altitude maze to the minotaur's lair, or as it's known in the novel "Flashman," "the catastrophe of Afghanistan." Now, like the British and Russians before him, he is facing the most brutish, corrupt, wily and patient warriors in the world, nicknamed dukhi, or ghosts, by flayed Russian soldiers who saw them melt away.

SEN. JOE BIDEN: Los Angeles Times (news story), 10/26/01: On Tuesday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Del.) warned that unless the air attacks end "sooner rather than later," the U.S. risks appearing to be a "high-tech bully. Every moment it goes on, it makes the aftermath problems more severe," he said.

DANIEL SCHORR, NPR, 10/27/01: "Well, I don't know how long this was supposed to take, but it's certainly going a lot worse than was expected. . . . This is a war in trouble." Plenty of room at the top in the punditry profession, folks. Plenty of room. If Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, et al., had been this wrong, the press would be raking them over the coals and repeating these statements over and over. Think you'll hear these screwups repeated much?

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Schmucks, every last one of them.

I hope people don't forget Joe "high-tech bulley" Biden's remark. Who would even listen to this fool with a wind bag?

Doctors bury their mistakes. Pundits wrap fish with theirs.

Their remarks should be e-mailed back to them as a reminder that we read and remember their comments and hold them all accountable.

That's a good idea. They thrive on the general ignorance of the public.

Bump for later. This was a good idea:)

Whack 'em with a rolled up newspaper!

I hope people don't forget Joe "high-tech bulley" Biden's remark.

How can we forget that Senator Mano-a-mano!?
All I can think is that all the smart people in Delaware must be so busy making money
thus only morons have time to vote...hence they get a Senator Joe Biden.

Don't know if you (or others) catch The Hugh Hewitt Show (can get it over the web
at www.newtalk870.com) but he was playing some great clips recently of Biden talking
in a slow, halting monotone (can't remember the subject).
Hewitt said "maybe we should start calling him 'Slow Joe' Biden"!

I hope people don't forget Joe "high-tech bulley" Biden's remark.

How can we forget that Senator Mano-a-mano!?
All I can think is that all the smart people in Delaware must be so busy making money
thus only morons have time to vote...hence they get a Senator Joe Biden.

Thanks for the flag, VOA!

From:
Unenlightened selfish interest: Hewitt slams Sen. Dems for dissing America at time of greatest need
Posted on 10/30/01 12:52 AM Pacific by JohnHuang2

And now we have Joe Biden droning on about "high-tech bullying" and the need to go mano a mano with the Taliban...

"mano"

"moron"

From InfoPlease - Foreign Words and Phrases:

mano a mano (mah'no ah mah'no) [Span.]: a direct confrontation or conflict.
“‘Stay out of it,’ he admonished his friends, ‘I want to handle this guy mano a mano.’”

Great additions.

You may want to add this thread to you bump list. Let's see how many stupid pundit quotes we can get on one thread.

Death To The Liberal Media- Death To The Lawyers Waiting In The Wings-Death to The Clintons-Death To Democraps-Praise Be To Allah!

Anybody have any stuff from that brilliant General Seymour Hersh?

QUAGMIRE======QUAGMIRE=======QUAGMIRE!!!!

Good point.If this stuff wasnt so serious,it would be amusing. These morons think they can still talk to us like Clintoon did.

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