William Kristol wants another six to nine months of silence from the Democrats.
KRISTOL: They’re playing — they’re leap-frogging each other in the degrees of irresponsibility they’re willing to advocate. And I really think people are being too sort of complacent and forgiving almost of the Democrats. ‘Oh, it’s politics, of course. One of them has a non-binding resolution. The other has a cap.’ It’s all totally irresponsible. It’s just unbelievable. The president is sending over a new commander, he’s sending over troops, and the Democratic Congress, in a pseudo-binding way or non-binding way, is saying, ‘It won’t work. Forget it. You troops, you’re going over there in a pointless mission. Iraqis who might side with us, forget it, we’re going to pull the plug.’ It’s so irresponsible that they can’t be quiet for six or nine months and say the president has made a decision, we’re not going to change that decision, we’re not going to cut off funds and insist on the troops coming back, so let’s give it a chance to work. You really wonder, do they want it to work or not? I really wonder that. I hate to say this about the Democrats. They’re people I know personally and I respect some of them. Do they want it to succeed or not?
Bill? Are you listening? We lost the war. The war is not winnable. We want to start taking our boy out of harms way, not increasing the number that are in the crosshairs. It’s that simple. The only thing that is irresponsible is to continue to support a war that is unwinnable.
Kristol: {singing} Oh Lord it is hard to be humble when you are perfect in every way.
This one man is nauseating to me. He is yet another one I simply can not stand to watch or listen to. He has this whining way of coming across that makes himself appear wimpish. Like he can not stand any credible debate on anything. If you are not with me then youare aginst me type of attitude. What a jerk he is …well he deserves to be head of the neocons…they are all jerks…well, maybe can can call them murderers…what ya say.
They are worse than killers. They are rabid dogs of war who care absolutely nothing for human life or freedom. The only thing they care about is their own power and wallets.
To be honest with you the Democrats calling for a nonbinding resolution deserve this.
I don’t think Kristol is in denial about Iraq at all. I think he and the rest of the neocon gasbags want more, perpetual, war and will say anything, pretend belief in any absurd idea if it will advance that cause.
Kristol is in denial, as are all his neocon gasbag cohorts, about their own insane ideology. They believe they can dominate and control the world and that it will be a good thing. This is the core of their lunacy just as it’s been for all their predecessors who’ve dreamed of empire and supremacy over their fellow man.
Our congress would better serve the nation by deploying straightjackets throughout the White House and Pentagon and various news organization headquarters around the country that they will by attempting to stage debates with irrational authoritarians like those running the Bush regime. There’s a mental hospital in an undisclosed location somewhere waiting to receive all these regime crazies, and the sooner they can be quarantined off from the rest of humanity the better off we’ll all be. Kristol and Cheney can share a cell with Kate O’Bierne and Peggy Noonan.
Thank you,
I agree with you. They will do and say whatever they need to to keep it going. I think we get too caught up in trying to decipher what looks like insanity and scratching our heads wondering why they can’t see the obvious, that the war is lost when in reality they have a much larger plan that has nothing to do with Iraqi democracy or ridding the world of WMD. But then we say, they don’t have the troops to fight this war. Well, I think they have a plan for that too. The majority of the country is against the war as it is now, confined in Iraq, a country that can’t attack us, and are demanding a withdrawal. But if there is a really catastrophic terrorist attack here combined with the breakout of a real shooting war with Iran that drags Israel and possibly others then I think we all know if the actual survival of this country is at stake then the troops will come, through a draft or a patriotic mass enlistment. If you build it they will come. And they are building a confrontation that will require us to defend our existence.
Super,
They don’t have enough troops to fight this war but they don’t care because they don’t even want or need to win this war anytime during the next decade or so. If they “win” at any time before they’ve engulfed every country in the entire Mideast in war then they fail. “Winning” too soon spells disaster for them. They need the chaos right up until they figure out how to gain control of all the resources in the region and be able to use them as instruments of power against Europe, China, Russia, India, and any other strong economic engine that might threaten to compete with neocon hegemony. They need the energy resources (so they believe),to assert their dominion over the entire planet. THESE PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY CRAZY AND SHOULD ALL BE LOCKED UP!
The worst terrorist enemies America has are based in the White House, and they have many handmaidens, of whom Kristol is but one, a lying scumbag coward without a shred of human decency in his chickenshit bones.
This administration’s fiasco leads us at this time to two choices: We leave now and lose or we leave later and lose.
It’s not a radical thought that the “Denial Cup” needs to be passed all around the political table.
Denial is our national disease, it knows no party anymore. We’ve passed that point… and years ago.
glenn greenwald has posted an excellent deconstruction of little billy kristol and his nepotistic playmates in today’s “our country’s tough guys and their moms and dads”:
that’s amusing.
That’s the sound of a Neocon begging.
You’re going to hear a lot more of that in the next two years.
Neocons are Neanderthal throwbacks to the time of Julius Caesar, and they still see the world that way. They believe the war in Iraq is still able to be won on their terms, but their terms are the terms of Julius Caesar. They think we are losing because our military is being hampered by certain restraints that Caesar did not have. Can anyone guess what the Neocons would really like to do to win in Iraq??
What would Attila/Ghengis/Pol do? Sad, but true…