[Dean's World] Dave Price: I'm Not Loven It

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Posted by Dave Price:
I'm Not Loven It
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1142977664.shtml


   [1]This is amusing.

     "A few seem almost eager to conclude that the whole struggle is
     already lost," Cheney told an enthusiastic military audience, from
     a stage bedecked with flags and camouflage netting. "But they're
     wrong."
     He said that "the only way to lose" in Iraq is to quit. "That is
     not an option."Bush has been criticized by many over Iraq. Most war
     critics, though, do not argue that the war is unwinnable but that
     administration decisions such as not sending more troops after the
     invasion have contributed to continuing problems.

   OK, arguably true, but Howard Dean [2]did say that "The idea that we
   are going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain
   wrong" and he is, after all, the chair of the DNC and ostensibly the
   leader of his party.
   That's bad enough, but the really galling thing is later the writer
   quotes that very same organization that is earlier claimed not to be
   representative of most critics!

     A statement from the Democratic National Committee called Cheney's
     remarks "a shopworn tactic of using cherry-picked facts and rosy
     rhetoric that don't match the reality on the ground."

   That's more than a little disingenuous.
   After starting this post, I checked the byline, and noticed...

     By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer

   Ah, now it all makes [3]sense.

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060321/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_2;_ylt=AoYpti0.PweJAouXSgT3quNX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
   2. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/06/dean.iraq.1935/
   3. http://www.powerlineblog.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=loven