Septembering
Published by BG on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 8:02 AM.Daily Kos: How Late is Too Late?
Forget what you previously heard that timetables undermine the troops, give a terrible advantage to the insurgents, and amount to a craven surrender in the Global War on Terror™. Those are Democratic timetables. What we have here are Republican timetables, which are patriotic, strategic and a wise conservation of U.S. military resources. This isn't "cut and run," no sirree. This is letting the Iraqis work things out for themselves.
So now there's a drum beat from the right that says we need to wait until September to see progress. Sigh... Here's my fearless prediction on this non-deadline deadline: Because the current conversation in the press revolves around timetables and deadlines due to the vetoed supplemental, Republican Senators and Congressmen are realizing now that the war becomes their albatross in the 2008 elections if they don't find a way to triangulate their previously hawkish positions a little closer to the center.
Because, you know, no one ever makes a big deal about a Republican being "for it before he was against it."
Anyway, what will happen in September is that the administration and military will start talking about all the progress being made, whether it's true or not is beyond the point, and will claim that the Iraqi government is well on their way to becoming the organized, temperate and legitimate body that can take control of its own destiny...
...if we can continue to work with them to help keep the peace. Our troops aren't going anywhere, and I don't think even the most optimistic progressive activists believe otherwise.
Bush is dead-assed determined to keep realigning "the mission" until he can hand this thing off and allow his party to attempt to create the perception eight years from '08 that Obama or Clinton or Gore was the one that ruined everything through their cut-and-run surrendering.
Because, you know, Democrats surrender while Republicans
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