Oh, so now it’s a long commitment.
Rice Says Administration Told Americans Iraq Would Be A “Generational Commitment”
This morning on Fox News Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked if “the Bush administration fairly [can] be criticized for failing to level with the American people about how long and difficult this commitment will be?” Rice responded:
[T]he administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq
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This administration lies with the arrogance and impunity of those who are certain they will hold absolute power in perpetuity. Or, they’re just psychotic.
Note how our lazy and incompetent media enablers lap it all up and breathlessly regurgitate it?
Heads up via Atrios.
A generational commitment?
As in, “We commit the next generation of young Americans to the flames?”
Rather like World War I was a generational commitment for Britain and Canada – as in committed to a mental ward. Those of the WWI generation that survived tended towards certifiably insane by modern standards because of the horrors of trench warfare. (Being part of a thousand-man unit ordered to charge another thousand-man unit that’s dug in with machine guns does that to you.) And modern warfare isn’t any better.