Huffpo: "Papers Pan B*sh Speech"

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Read (some) here:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003640595

excerpt:

Thomas Ricks live-blogged the speech at www.washingtonpost.com. Here are some of his comments, as they occurred.

--"Return on success"? I dunno, this sounds like a Merrill Lynch slogan to me. Is it annualized? :rofl:

--He just said that the "way forward" he described makes it possible to bring together both sides of the debate. This leaves me scratching my head a bit. Is the goal of the anti-war movement to get the U.S. military presence in Iraq back to the Jan. 2006 level of about 130,000? I don't think so.

-- Quoting a Dead Soldier: This is dangerous territory. It worries me a bit. It makes me think of the two paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne who were killed in Baghdad the other day, and who signed an op-ed piece in the New York Times that argued against the surge.

--I actually am surprised at how old this speech seems, more than four years into the war. The president is arguing that we have to keep troops in Iraq, and we need to make it a democracy to change the Middle East.

--Democratic Response: 'Indefinite Presence'
That phrase, just uttered by Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, sounds to be like it is going to be the Democratic response to "precipitous withdrawal."

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1. bringing up the dead soldier at the end really was upsetting to me.

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2. Thank G-d I fell asleep before that...

what a scumbag. He feels nothing for anyone but himself.