Rudy's on the news, still going ballistic over the moveon.org ad.
Nor have we heard any apologies from the GOP to the State Department folks who resigned before the war, stating that blowing up Saddam would probably result in quagmire, which, of course, it has.
Where are their medals of freedom, Mr. Bush? Dr. Rice?
Except, he's gone way too far, now (for the same reasons as he has before, IMO, over-confidence in a point-of-view, usually a legal one).Where are their medals of freedom, Mr. Bush? Dr. Rice?
I think I just heard him say, "Since when do we question Generals during wartime?"
I almost sprayed my coffee.
If I got that right, that could almost put him on Oberman's "worst in the world", eh?
How many Generals did Lincoln of the Party-of-Lincoln fire? Even MacArthur got fired.
Was Rudy at a Yankee's game when Wolfowitz's was making his comments about Shinseki?
Nor have we heard any apologies to the State Department folks who resigned before the war, stating that OIF would result in quagmire, which, of course, it has. Mary A Wright. John Brady Kiesling. John H. Brown. Not to mention the 2002 memo of Ryan C. Crocker.
Mr. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, opened a two-front war of words on Capitol Hill, calling the recent estimate by Gen. Eric K. Shinseki of the Army that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq, "wildly off the mark." Pentagon officials have put the figure closer to 100,000 troops. Mr. Wolfowitz then dismissed articles in several newspapers this week asserting that Pentagon budget specialists put the cost of war and reconstruction at $60 billion to $95 billion in this fiscal year. He said it was impossible to predict accurately a war's duration, its destruction and the extent of rebuilding afterward.
"We have no idea what we will need until we get there on the ground," Mr. Wolfowitz said at a hearing of the House Budget Committee. "Every time we get a briefing on the war plan, it immediately goes down six different branches to see what the scenarios look like. If we costed each and every one, the costs would range from $10 billion to $100 billion." Mr. Wolfowitz's refusal to be pinned down on the costs of war and peace in Iraq infuriated some committee Democrats, who noted that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., the budget director, had briefed President Bush on just such estimates on Tuesday.-Global Policy Forum, February 28, 2003
"We have no idea what we will need until we get there on the ground," Mr. Wolfowitz said at a hearing of the House Budget Committee. "Every time we get a briefing on the war plan, it immediately goes down six different branches to see what the scenarios look like. If we costed each and every one, the costs would range from $10 billion to $100 billion." Mr. Wolfowitz's refusal to be pinned down on the costs of war and peace in Iraq infuriated some committee Democrats, who noted that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., the budget director, had briefed President Bush on just such estimates on Tuesday.-Global Policy Forum, February 28, 2003
(I wonder if McCain thinks that Wolfowitz ought to "get out of the country", which is what he said of moveon.org over the weekend? There is even a video of him saying it.)
Update: Fox appears to have taken up with Gates, not Petraeus. Boy did Petreaus dodge that bullet, or what?
