If he'd come out and said we should quit and come home as quickly as possible.
2007-09-10 18:38:25 · 6 answers · asked by netjr 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Of course, he'd be a hero then.
2007-09-10 18:41:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I won't argue that it's politics, but his report changes nothing. Public opinion isn't going to swing back and support Bush and it never will. Congressional support from the Republicans is still tepid, not tepid enough to let the Democrats have anything they want. Too many swing state Republicans know their jobs are on the line and they are paying attention to the polls. If the GAO report had come out in Bush's favor, it would have been lauded, but it didn't so it was criticized. The same goes for the Democrats and Petraeus. But the bottom line is that the public's support for the war is evaporating and continuing to do so, so Republicans who want to keep their jobs, and Republicans that want their party to have any realistic shot at holding the White House, are looking for an end game.
2007-09-10 20:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He would never say that! He is a Bush man, and even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who is a higher ranking general, doesn't agree with him either! Neither does the GAO (which is independent of Bush) ,along with AP, who indicated that though deaths are down in Baghdad, they are still at the level they were a year ago, while those outside of Baghdad has doubled. It is a good thing others keep figures than act like Gen Frank's who "didn't do body Counts"! The GAO has still not changed the bench mark figures and Patreas intends to be in Iraq well after Bush has gone!
We ONLY had 8 soldiers killed today! Actually yesterday. Morning in Baghdad is breaking, and so will the deaths, which have not ceased every single day for 4 1/2 years!
2007-09-10 18:48:34 · answer #3 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'd have a different view of him if what he said lined up with either of the two independent assessments of Iraq that came out in the same week.
2007-09-10 19:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by Fretless 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably not as much as you'd think. What dems are looking for is a plan that allows us to withdraw somewhere down the line, one where we can actually fix a point for it. Since all the information coming out of Iraq supports this as well, the information the general's giving is contrary to popular knowledge about the war. He has to explain how and why something exists as it does, how we're doing better and why it's different from the knowledge we have now, before dems can agree.
2007-09-10 18:45:31 · answer #5 · answered by whiteflame55 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
yes they would.
2007-09-10 18:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋