From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:44:21 +0400, George Sherwood
 wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:53:55 -0600, John Cuccia wrote:
>
>
>> Where's the outrage over this claim that the troops are to blame for
>> the abject failure of the Administration to achieve any one of the
>> myriad objectives they've been floating for years now?
>>
>> George S, I recall you claiming offense at the Kerry joke.  How do you
>> feel about this, which is no joke at all?
>
>John,
>   If you can't see the difference between the man who would be
>Commander-in-Chief making a degrading statement and some columnist, I
>can't really help you.

You mean the man-who-would-have-been C-in-C, who made a degrading comment
about the extant C-in-C, which generated tons of faux outrage from people
who deliberately misinterpreted the statement and tried to twist it as 
slamming the troops?

> If I was to take offense at every columnist who
>made such a statement, I would be in a perpetual state and I don't have
>the energy.  Many on the left make worse statements then this, but you
>would rather cherry pick.

I haven't heard anyone on the left (or right, for that matter) making
"worse" statements about American troops.  American political
leaders, yes.  Troops, no.  So there's no cherry picking involved.  Until
this I haven't heard anyone try to blame our doomed-from-the-start strategy
on the grunts in Iraq.

Here's what people on the right and left seem to miss about the fiasco in
Iraq.  They all seem to wonder whether the al-Maliki government can stand
together to quell the rampant sectarian violence.   Everyone
seems to think that he wants to do so, but lacks the political capital to
do so.  You know what I think?  I think that he's a Shi'ite who supports
the violence against the Sunnis population.   Bush gave Iraq
to the Shi'a population (and hence to Iran) and now they will exact their
revenge, while we are forced to watch helplessly, offering our own people
up as cannon fodder.

The C-in-C has commanded us into a position from which we can't retreat and
can't advance.    What do you guys call that in officer
training school?

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