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| Robert Novak: Escape, Run Away, Admit Defeat (or you'll make me look bad) |
| 2005-05-14 |
| Determination high in the Bush administration to begin irreversible withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq this year is reinforced by the presence at the State Department of the most dominant secretary since Henry Kissinger three decades ago. Condoleezza Rice is expected to support administration officials who want to leave even if what is left behind does not constitute perfection. Amid the presidential campaign's furious debate over Iraq, I reported last Sept. 20 ("Quick exit from Iraq is likely") about strong feeling in the policymaking apparatus to get out of Iraq in 2005 even if democracy and peace had not been achieved there. My column evoked widespread expressions of disbelief, but changes over the last six months have only strengthened the view of my Bush administration sources that the escape from Iraq should begin once a permanent government is in place in Baghdad... Aw, phooey on him. For the US to leave Iraq in force would be to abandon the best strategic position that could be held on that half of the world. It projects massive power to the entire middle east, northern Africa, and central Asia. Anywhere else and the logistics and expense of force projection to these regions skyrocket. And give one one good reason *why* we should leave. Piker. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #11 plato (not) - Little Bobby Novak has been around a looooong time and is extremely well known to those who aren't fucking idiots or children. This would be just one more Bobby Novak Magical Mystery Tour. You got a woodie for him? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-14 23:36 |
| #10 Why so responses inspite of no article to read? Is it knee jerk/diss Robert Novak happy hour time? |
| Posted by: plato 2005-05-14 23:17 |
| #9 Novak has been on a bender of late, more misses and hits. Condi works for Bush, period. Colin worked for himself, period. Bush isn't turning on the Iraqi nascient government. We will draw down by June 2006, leaving a significant embassy and military base. "Escape from Iraq?" What a loser phrase. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-05-14 21:31 |
| #8 Oooooh, baby, that hurt! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-14 20:12 |
| #7 Both he and Buchanan have that dark-we-don't-wanna-talkaboutit streak...I loved when commenters on his last presidential speech said it sounded better "in the original German" lol |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-14 20:09 |
| #6 Lol. Novak's as politically schizophrenic / goofy as Buchanan, as self-absorbed as Krugman and Friedman combined, and as credible as Jeanne Dixon, whom he emulates regularly. He was cominc relief 20 yrs ago when I watched him on TV. Now, well, he's just kinda pathetic. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-14 19:56 |
| #5 don't believe me? Find a kind word he's written about Wolfowitz, just one sentence. Novak is what Chris Matthews will look like when balding and half-a-stroke to slow down his interrupting interviewees |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-14 19:50 |
| #4 Novak's been against the Iraq war (in fact he's had an unabashed affection for Arab dictators and against Israel... neocons =jooooo tools)since the start. Anything he says was spoon-fed by an Anti-W side, like, say...the State Dept |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-14 19:48 |
| #3 Agreed. He wants to elect Repubs in 06 and 08, doesn't give a damn about the longer term consequences. |
| Posted by: anon 2005-05-14 19:46 |
| #2 What Anonymoose said. If Novak's right, and we bug out this year-- or next, or the one after-- without taking full advantage of the strategic position we've won, I'm giving up not only on this President, but on this country; it would mean our entire political leadership is simply too fucking stupid to win this war. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-05-14 19:45 |
| #1 I don't want to know what kind of wife he has... |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2005-05-14 19:15 |