FRIDAY NEWS DUMP: Architect of The Surge resigns

[tgnyc]

4pm on CNN -- JD Crouch decides to spend more time with his family.

No link yet.

[CPschem]

1. Escort connection? n/t

[bigtree]

2. back under the rock

with him

[Fridays Child]

3. I wonder if this is more Hookergate fallout.

[atreides1]

4. He gets to spend more time with his family???

Something that over 3300 men and women will never get to do again! Must be nice for him and his family?

[kenny blankenship]

5. Another sign that the surge is working I guess?

[SteveM]

14. Perhaps he "surged" once too often -- here at home.

[Supersedeas]

6. Nothing to see here--put more pencil and lipstick on Couric and feed them some celebrity

infortainment.

[CPschem]

7. He's enlisting? oh, nevermind.

[Breeze54]

8. Bush’s point man for escalation plan resigns.

Bush’s point man for escalation plan resigns.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/04/bushs-point-man-for-escalation-plan-resigns/

J.D. Crouch, the deputy national security adviser whose office “was the nerve center
for the Bush administration’s top-to-bottom review of war strategy that culminated
with the president’s decision in January to send more troops to Iraq,” announced his
resignation today, saying “it was time, for both him and his family, to leave the
government for the private sector or academia.” 12:18 pm | Comment (39)

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Former MSU associate professor J.D. Crouch leaving his government post

BREAKING NEWS 11:41 am | May 4, 2007

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/BREAKING01/70504017

Associated Press


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WASHINGTON —

J.D. Crouch, former associate professor of defense and strategic studies at Missouri State
Univeristy, is stepping down from his national security post at the White House

Crouch, 48, said he’s been thinking for months about leaving his job as deputy to the
president’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley.

In announcing his resignation on Friday, Bush said Crouch has been “at the forefront in
devising and implementing the new strategy to help build a peaceful, stable and secure Iraq.”

In Bush’s remaining time in office, Crouch says the president hopes to see a stable Iraq and
keep pressuring Iran not to develop a nuclear weapon.

Bush also wants to direct attention to his agenda of helping people around the world gain
greater political freedom and economic prosperity.

“These are not things that can be solved by military solutions,” Crouch said.

more.........

[rodeodance]

9. this was posted on DU this am (or last evening?)

[AlCzervik]

10. link here-

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/BREAKING01/70504017

[rodeodance]

11. thread from ealier today here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2834190&mesg_id=2834190

[enid602]

12. what next?

First 'shock & awe,' then abstinence and now the 'surge?' It's just too much to bare.

[catmandu57]

13. Hell he's only 48

grab a rfle and hie thee hence to Iraq scumbag.