Flop sweat update: "Official: Bush Team Has Formal Iraq Plan" (FOX)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Now THIS is what I call DESPERATE. "There's a PLAN, and we're USING it, we just can't VALIDATE or DISCUSS IT in DETAIL because it's CONFIDENTIAL."

:evilgrin:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134907,00.html

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has developed a formal written strategy for Iraq that envisions using a mix of diplomacy and military force to try to wrest control of dozens of key cities from insurgents before planned January elections, a senior administration official said Friday.

The strategy — already largely outlined by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top officials in recent weeks — was developed over the summer as Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry (search) was accusing President Bush (search) of lacking a coherent plan to end the rising violence and pave the way for the withdrawal of American troops.

With more than 1,000 Americans killed, Iraq has become a dominant issue in the campaign. Administration officials — most notably Rumsfeld and State Department officials — have differed openly about whether Iraqi elections have to be held in every area of the country, because of the violence.

The administration argues that it is pursuing an integrated political, economic and military strategy to defeat the insurgency, and identifies dozens of areas where the strategy is to be applied, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the plan is classified.

[strategery blunder]

1. Thanks for the entertainment

And I have a plan to become richer than Bill Gate$ within the next hour...:eyes:

[knowbody0]

2. pr work already news

military handing us $$ to broken barbershops in samara

[mrbassman03]

3. They didn't go IN with a plan!?!?!?!

Wouldn't this be a pretty big thing to admit? That is what they are saying isn't it?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. It's sad in an infuriating kind of way

"The strategy — already largely outlined by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top officials in recent weeks — was developed over the summer as Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry (search) was accusing President Bush (search) of lacking a coherent plan to end the rising violence and pave the way for the withdrawal of American troops."

1). Rumsfeld wrote it over the last couple of weeks. Remember, "weeks" literally means "more than one week." So "recent weeks" can mean "over the last couple of weeks."

2). "developed over the summer"...which means that prior to the summer there was no plan, YES.

3). "as Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry was accusing President Bush of lacking a coherent plan to end the rising violence and pave the way for the withdrawal of American troops." SO...Bush attacks Kerry for criticizing his non-existent Iraq "plan," but he's RIGHT because there WAS NO plan, so in conclusion John Kerry should be OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.

:toast:

[high density]

14. Sounds like it

March 2003 through October 2004: Bush had no plan for Iraq.

[MatrixEscape]

5. Sure they have a plan, and it's old news ...

So, they are going to reveal that PNAC has been the plan for years? Shock and Awe was several years old before they used it? Wolfowitz was the Forefather of the Iraqi Revolution?

Let's see, four nice, juicy military bases in Iraq. Look at all those countries you can hit now.

Now, that's a plan!

Defeat the insurgency? What about all the natives who want the Imperial forces out? Dozens of areas? Sure, there are dozens of areas that are totally out of control.

Of course, the announcement was a poltical ploy, just like the school terra alert. I am just wondering who is stupid here. People who still buy this dying regime's tactics, or the regime's inability to see that overkill is going to make the veil thinner?

"Oh, BTW, we have an exit strategy now!" Doh!

[henslee]

6. "Uh, its uh, double secret probation." "Double secret probation?, sir?"

[bushwakker]

7. Diplomacy? What are they - UN loving globalists?

This is so pathetic.

[jimshoes]

8. Might be talkin about that PNAC thing

very secret you know. It's been the plan since day 1.

[wildflower]

9. A secret plan? Isn't that what Nixon said? n/t

[baltodemvet]

10. This is the October surprise

They tricked us! We thought they were clueless and incompetent but they were working on a plan all along. Boy, do I feel stupid! I'm going to go out right now and take the Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers off my car.
These guys are too clever for me.

[Downtown Hound]

11. Wow! It only took them what, a year and a half?

Sorry folks but ah, I've been wrong about Bush all this time. He's just as decisive, tough, and shit-kickin' as all his supporters say about him. At this rate, in about ten years, he'll have more than a plan. He'll have a god damn IDEA!

[AnIndependentTexan]

12. I wonder if this has something to do with them finding the website

Remember how freepers were jumping over that they mailed 3 million of their own people and were going to use his own words against him? They were all jumping up and down because they had found the website on Kerry's plan of Iraq. It was a separate website then the main website. How much you want to make a bet they are claiming that as their plan.

[frylock]

13. bush team's formal iraq plan:

Phase 1: Collect underpants.
Phase 2: ?????
Phase 3: Profit!

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Wow! They've come up with a plan for Iraq?

Only a year and a half after they invaded? I'm really impressed with the efficiency of this administration.

[mikehiggins]

16. Oh my God! It's Nixon redux!

The "secret plan" that can't be discussed.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Don't these assholes EVER fucking learn?

This HAS to be a setup, trying to lure Kerry into a mistake.

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. W reminds me of Baldrick from the Black Adder

"I have a plan. A cunning plan." Too bad it's a secret. It's very hard to implement a plan when you won't tell anyone what the heck it is.

[baltodemvet]

18. LMAO!

It was nice to hear that line again--and totally on point!
Bush as black adder--of course!

:toast:

[nonconformist]

19. That is HILARIOUS

The didn't draft a plan until KERRY told them they didn't have one. But, but... they can't TELL us what the plan is.

They're becoming so incredibly transparent that even the soft Bush supporters should be seeing through that load of shit.