Murtha: Bush ‘Delusional’ About Iraq Progress

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/13/murtha-bush-delusional/

Murtha: Bush ‘Delusional’ About Iraq Progress

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) — whose call for immediate redeployment in Nov. 2005 helped propel a national dialogue about withdrawal — said on CNN yesterday that Bush’s claims of progress are “delusional, to say the least”:

Nothing has gotten better. Incidents have increased. We’ve had more Americans killed in the last four months than any other period during the war. More Iraqis have been killed. Incidents are up. Unemployment is still 40 percent to 60 percent. Oil production is below prewar level. And this — this rhetoric about the constitution and the changes — they say, well, they’re making changes. There’s no changes that have been made.

Watch it/read transcript at link~

Murtha said he sees “more and more people coming around. I’m more optimistic than I’ve ever been that we’re going to start redeployment before long.”

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Murtha how he would respond to the administration’s claims that a withdrawal would embolden al Qaeda to take over Iraq and establish a home base from which to attack America. “They see us as occupiers and they fire up the Sunnis and Shias,” Murtha responded. “As soon as we leave, the Shias and the Sunnis will get rid of Al Qaeda, because they’re such a small group.”

He added the administration has continued “to say for four -and-a-half years there’s progress. So why would I believe that there’s going to be chaos just because they say it?”

[slank]

1. Bush has a LOT of delusions

God put me in the whitehouse?

Um, i think it was the NSA & Karl Rove who did that one.

It certainly wasn't the voters.

His strong tendency to delusions probably stems from his early & heavy use of alcohol & cocaine.

Closeted Homosexuality doesn't help much either.

[EVDebs]

2. Dems need to put forward a "Save the Military" budget bill and THEN have * veto it !

Put DimSon on record with his destruction of the Army. Then have him autograph a copy of the April 16, 2007 Time Magazine. Maybe the 'mindset' of Congress will have changed by then,

"The only way to fix the Army's woes is to effect a change in money or mind-set or probably some of each. "

America's Broken Down Army
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1606888,00.html

Damn straight, a Democratic progressive mindset of commonsense and curtailment of the nutzo GOP spending policies on DoD and 'war without end' and a bottomless pit in Iraq !

[tanyev]

3. He's delusional about everything.

And so are the 26% who still adore him.