EFL - more evidence that the "two Americas" is not a division of rich and poor but of patriots and idiotarians.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday the United States cannot wilt in the face of the Iraqi insurgency and suggested critics of the war in Iraq were becoming rattled and defeatist... "We can't just wilt in the face of this kind of challenge, we have to meet the challenge," Powell told ABC's "Good Morning America" program.
... U.S. Sen. John Kerry, Bush's Democratic opponent in the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election, on Monday launched his sharpest assault yet on what he called the Republican president's "arrogance and outright incompetence" in Iraq. Three influential Republican senators criticized mistakes in Bush's policy on Sunday and one, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana, cited "incompetence" in the U.S. failure to spend more money to reconstruct Iraq. "The fact is, we're in deep trouble in Iraq ... and I think we're going to have to look at some recalibration of policy," Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said on Sunday.
"It is a difficult struggle that we are in right now. There is no question about it. Insurgencies are tough," Powell said. "But to say that we can't deal with it, this sort of attitude that we are on the verge of defeat, is absolutely wrong. This is the time to not take counsel of our fears and say everything is falling apart." |