Hagel slams White House
Ouch. Bush, Cheney, & Co. just got slammed by a member of their own party:
Well, that was a predictable response. It's a stale, moldy response that has remained the same for over two years. And the excuse about not having a timetable is both weak and lousy. The goal is to perpetuate the war. They can't do that if they have a timetable for withdrawing. Rice was on CNN to prop up the administration's view, but it doesn't matter. The White House is losing traction with the American people:
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican Senator Chuck Hagel slammed the George W. Bush administration's Iraq policy as "disconnected from reality" in some of the harshest comments to date about the war from a member of the president's own party.Well, well. Another Republican steps forward to embrace the truth and reality. Things must really be getting bad for the White House, which refuses to say anything other than we're still making "progress" in Iraq:
Hagel, a top Senate Republican said to have presidential aspirations, said in an interview in US News and World Report, set to hit newsstands Monday, that US troops are "losing" the Iraq war, and that "things aren't getting better, they're getting worse."
"The White House is completely disconnected from reality," said Hagel. "It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq," said Hagel, who added that increasingly, fellow Republicans are coming to share his view.
"More and more of my colleagues up here are concerned," he said.
US officials say the president hopes to convince skeptical Americans that progress is being made in Iraq but that setting a firm timetable for withdrawal would only embolden the United States' enemies.(Emphasis mine).
Well, that was a predictable response. It's a stale, moldy response that has remained the same for over two years. And the excuse about not having a timetable is both weak and lousy. The goal is to perpetuate the war. They can't do that if they have a timetable for withdrawing. Rice was on CNN to prop up the administration's view, but it doesn't matter. The White House is losing traction with the American people:
...Recent polls show declining US support for the war, with some 59 percent of Americans expressing disapproval of how Bush was handling the situation in Iraq, and 51 percent thought the United States should never have invaded the country.The longer they continue to defend the war in this manner, the more idiotic they will appear to an increasing number of people who see that invading Iraq was a terrible idea.
