NOW He Tells Us: U.S. Senator, in Letter to Editor, Calls Old Iraq War Plan Wrong

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Editor & Publisher

In a letter to the editor published today by The New York Times, Sen. Christopher ("Kit") Bond of Missouri, an influential Republican, declares that the administration until recently had the "wrong plan" for Iraq for three years. Unfortunately, he did not tell anyone about his until today.

Bond's letter, meant to praise the current "surge" effort, raised the question of how often he had spoken out against the "wrong plan" since 2003. Glenn Greenwald, the Salon.com blogger, investigated and found: not at all.

"While he now claims that the last three years were a failure because we had the wrong strategy, Bond -- like the vast, vast majority of the Republican Party and war supporters generally -- spent the last three years telling Americans that we had the right strategy and were winning in Iraq, while attacking and demonizing those who suggested otherwise:," Greenwald writes.

He then cites several examples.

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003615098

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Bonds letter: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/opinion/l22iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

From Salon.com:

Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri, one of George Bush's most blindly loyal Senatorial servants, wrote a letter yesterday to the New York Times which contained a startling admission tossed in as a throwaway line:

It is clear that if we abandon Iraq as some want us to do right now, Al Qaeda will establish a safe haven there. This would give terrorists the resources of the petroleum-rich country to finance their operations, significantly increasing the threat of future attacks on the United States.

While I agree that we had the wrong plan for three years, we now have the right one, and the right man to lead it. The proper conclusion to be drawn from the N.I.E. findings is that Congress and the American people must remain vigilant and committed to the war on terror and its central front in Iraq.

Bond told AP the same thing:

"The strategy we had before was not the right strategy," he told reporters at midweek. "We should have had a counterinsurgency strategy."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/?last_story=/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/22/bond/

[Vincardog]

1. You have been WRONG on every point for the last 6 years. Why should we believe you NOW?

[Skip Intro]

2. When did it go from why we went in to how we went in?

That seems to be the discussion whenever Iraq comes up - on the repuke side and our side. It seems like most are trying to move past the criminal lies and actions of attacking, invading, and occupying to the "plan" to do all that, as if it was ok to do it, it was just done badly.

Those who pulled off these deceptions to get their blood-bathed war should be held accountable for their actions. I don't hear that enough.

[DemoTex]

3. A letter left best unwritten.

Unread too, I might add.

:puke:

[shaniqua6392]

4. Is he up for re-election in 2008???

It seems like all of the so-called "Republican defectors" are worried about being re-elected. They are not really worried about the troops. Their constituents are putting the squeeze on them. Otherwise, they would still be kissing Bush's ass like they have done for the last six and half years.

[xchrom]

5. hey kit? -- where are the weapons of mass destruction? n/t

[wtmusic]

6. A counterinsurgency strategy? Isn't that like, a war?

That is as weak as it gets.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. 20/20 hindsight, eh Kit? Sorry, you're a little late.

CYA plan now in effect.

[ima_sinnic]

8. oh, the "new" "plan" is somehow different from the "old" one (n/t)

[Cobalt-60]

9. distance from bush = 0.00001 miles

Sorry kit, Lip service doesn't cut it.
You're a shrubber all right.
We'd be fools to even listen to much less believe anything out of your lie hole.