John Edwards has purchased 2 minutes of air time on cable midget MSNBC to rebut President Bush’s address to the nation tonight. I wonder if the air time cost as much as one of his haircuts? USA Today reports on the contents of Edwards’ rebuttal:
“Unfortunately, the president is pressing on with the only strategy he’s ever had — more time, more troops, and more war.”
“In January, after years of evidence that military actions cannot force a political solution, the president announced a military surge to force a political solution. In May, he vetoed a plan to end the war, demanded more time to show the surge could work, and Congress gave it to him. Now, after Gen. Petraeus reports the surge has produced no progress toward a political solution, what does the president want? More time for the surge to work, when all of us know it won’t.”
“But Congress must answer to the American people. Tell Congress you know the truth — they have the power to end this war and you expect them to use it. When the president asks for more money and more time, Congress needs to tell him he only gets one choice: a firm timeline for withdrawal.”
Of course, you know that Edwards and the other Democrats running for President had decided all of this a long time before General Petraeus made his report to Congress last week. According to The Hill, House Speaker Pelosi was already dismissing the General’s report as much as a month before it was presented.
Led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Democrats say they fear that Bush’s handpicked commander in Iraq will paint an unreasonably rosy picture of the progress on the ground.
“I’m very concerned that they will kick the can further down the road or talk about a few anecdotal successes that they’ll try to pass off as the situation in Iraq,” Pelosi told a group of journalists recently.
Frankly, General Petraeus could have found Osama, defeated the insurgency, and completely trained the Iraqi Military and the Democrats would still have demanded that we withdraw all of the troops immediately. The Democrats don’t care about the War, the soldiers, or the future; they simply hate Bush too much to allow a victory.
Anyway, I guess I’m probably worrying for nothing. Afterall, Edwards’ rebuttal will be broadcast on MSNBC, so it isn’t like anyone will see it.
