dKos: George Will warns George W (A pre 11/2 Tet Offensive in Iraq?)

[iconoclastic cat]

From a Daily Kos post:

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George Will warns George W

George Will warns George W
by Ralph Nader
Wed Aug 18th, 2004 at 10:35:55 EDT

Anybody happen to see what George effing Will, a man so full of crap he can make even baseball seem like sophistry, said about Iraq today:


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George Will in WAPO:


A house so divided cannot stand. If it is the prime minister's will, or that of Iraq's embryonic democratic institutions, to conduct with insurgent factions negotiations that strip the Iraqi state of an essential attribute of statehood -- a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence -- the U.S. presence will become untenable.

Untenable even before what may be coming before November: an Iraqi version of the North Vietnamese Tet offensive of 1968. To say that the coming offensive will be by "Baathists" is, according to one administration official, akin to saying "Nazis" when you mean "the SS" -- the most fearsome of the Nazis. Such an offensive could make Sadr's insurgency seem a minor irritant. And it could unmake a presidency, as Tet did.



WFT? First of all, didn't Will get the memo stating that that things are going swimmingly in Iraq? I thought Poppy told all the so-called grown-ups to get on board and back whatever stupid shit junior decided to pull. And second --Tet??? You gottabekiddingme. As absolutely screwed up as things are in Iraq, does anybody anywhere really think that any group in Iraq has the military capability to unleash anything that could be compared to the shitstorm that was TET?

If so, I wish George Will would tell W and maybe save some American lives. And I wish he would also tell JFK so JFK would stop being dubya-light on this issue and tell the truth that I, Ralph Nader have been telling you, which is that the invasion was a crime and we have to get the freak out of there now!

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Note: I don't have a link to the article that this poster is discussing. I'll find it in a second...


Note again: link to WaPo story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9781-2004Aug17.html

[havocmom]

1. the junta does not understand TET because none of them went to Nam

Chicken Hawks can compare apples to oranges because they don't understand either.

[yellowcanine]

2. Does George Will know something we don't? Is this a leak?

Is it possible that George Will has some intelligence sources that say the Iraqis are planning an October surprise for Bush and he let it slip?

[wtmusic]

3. How do negotiations "strip the Iraqi state

of a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence"?

[klook]

4. Play up your opponent

This could be the strategy of portraying the Iraqi "insurgents" (who came up with that term?) as a fearsome fighting machine, so that when the U.S. military steps in to help out and crush them, it will be a massive "victory" for "us."