Obama Withdrawal Bad, Bush/McCain Withdrawal Good

How dumb does the administration think we are? Repeating the same made up words and defining them most favorably for yourself while demonizing the essentially same word that has been demonized for a long time to the American people is, to borrow a favorite word from another guy that annoys me a bit less, Lou Dobbs, poppycock! I hear another of Bush's talking heads making the case on MSNBC saying that Obama's "timeline for withdrawal" is such a dangerous and dumb message to send to the enemy (without having any consultation/briefings from commanders on the ground) while "event horizons" and "mutual aspirational goals" are the way to go. WTF?

And since when did John McCain become psychic enough to know the future? If the surge hadn't been implemented then it wouldn't have been safe enough for Obama to have made a trip to Iraq? How does he know? If I remember the past (which did actually happen) correctly, Bush, Rice, and our best friend Dick went to visit Iraq even when the surge 'wasn't working' and violence was very high...the solution is lots and lots of security, the kind McCain had when he visited Iraq to appear for us back at home that he could walk down the street in Iraq. How don't they know that violence would not have dropped because there would have been no U.S. troops to shoot at if they'd been withdrawn?

I wish Quinnipiac would do a poll asking Americans if they think there is a meaningful difference between these two phrases.

The world has gone so 1984. I can't wait until the President gets on national television to tell us all we're at war with Eurasia. Oh wait, they've skipped the entire amorphous multi-continent phase of war (axis of evil?) and went straight to the even more amorphous, undefinable terrorists that could be living next door to you in little sleeper cells all over the globe and will never be "defeated".