David Brooks Admits He Pulled 10,000 Dead Iraqis a Month "Out Of the Air"

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003615101

A segment on NBC's "Meet the Press" today covered the current debate over the "surge" in Iraq vs. a phased withdrawal. Among the guests were Bob Woodward of The Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times. At one point, Woodward challenged Brooks after he cited the Iraqis losing 10,000 a month if we pull out and attributing the number to The New York Times' John Burns and the recent National Intelligence Estimate.

Brooks admits: "I just picked that 10,000 out of the air."

Host Tim Russert had asked, "Is there any way to achieve, in Washington, a bipartisan consensus on what to do about Iraq?"

BROOKS: It's based upon this unknown: I don't think there's any possibility that within five years that we're going to see a drastic diminution of violence. So we could be losing 125 Americans every month for five years. On the other hand --

WOODWARD: I mean that's politically impossible --

[aquart]

1. Well, it won't be pretty.

But it's pretty ugly now.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Brooks has gotta be a world class nincompoop

a real boob.
No wonder Brooks has been wrong on everything... he makes the shit up !!!

iy yi yi

[Vanje]

3. Brooks is an empty suit

Has Brooks ever been correct about anything?
Has he ever,in all of his life, shed a dim candle's worth of light?
Has he ever shared an original thought?
That guy fulfills the definition of an empty suit.

[liberal N proud]

4. Brooks belongs to the devil himself (cheney and his sidekick bu$h) n/t