As he searches for a new strategy for Iraq, Bush has now adopted the formula advanced by his top military adviser to describe the situation. "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. The assessment was a striking reversal for a president who, days before the November elections, declared, "Absolutely, we're winning."Hold it. I thought that anybody who suggested we weren't winning in Iraq would demoralize the troops and make them feel that we weren't 100% behind our brave fighting men and women. Now the Commander in Chief is saying we're not winning? WTF?
Has he cleared this with Dick Cheney, the man who suggested darkly (as if there's any other way for him to suggest anything) that any American who didn't voice the belief that we were winning in Iraq were traitors:
The thing that's partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.So you have to ask -- why doesn't President Bush support the troops?
