From Protein Wisdom:
Former DNC Chairman Terry Mcauliffe, appearing moments ago on FOXNews’ “The Big Story,” laid out Democratic criticism of the administration’s GWOT strategy (paraphrasing):
1) We now see that the Taliban is reorganizing in Afghanistan—all because Bush (the inaccurate argument goes) “pulled the troops too soon” and “rushed them into Iraq” before the Afghan job was completed. In short, leaving to allow a sovereign Afghanistan to try to stand on its own two feet was a disastrous mistake.
2) The US needs to pull troops out of Iraq so that the Iraqis can handle the problems themselves and become a legitimate sovereign country rather than the protectorate of an imperialist US military. In short, leaving to allow a sovereign Iraq to stand on its own two feet is a moral, political, and strategic imperative.
In fairness, David Asman, filling in for John Gibson, didn’t ask Mcauliffe to reconcile these two arguments, which on their face at least appear to paint the Dems into a rather untenable rhetorical position. Consequently, I can’t say for certain how Terry would have tried to weasel out of the rather obvious inconsistency—though if I had to take a guess, I suspect he’d fall back on the Senate’s “bipartisan no-confidence vote in George Bush,” which essentially demanded that the President follow his own plan, and to update the Senate to tell them that he is indeed continuing to do so.
And yet this party netted how many millions of votes in 2004? Enough to make your hair stand on end, ain’t it?
Sounds an awful lot like "I voted for it before I voted against it", doesn't it? So why is Kos and Co. mad at Kerry? He is just speaking the spirit of the message, namely incoherence. How's that for "truth to power"?
