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[rone]

"It was important for Bush to remind the American public of the cost of failure," said Michael Rubin, an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute and another neoconservative war supporter. "Basically, Bush was letting us see the forest through the trees."

However, he said, "the devil's in the details, and with the stakes so high, we can't ignore the details."

He continued, "The problem here is that the President isn't giving 110%, because 90% of war is half mental.  You can lead a liberation force to water, but you can't make them drink it."

[Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for a New American Century, said,] "I'm willing to say policy was still correct, but I'm not willing to take the blame for people's inability to carry it out in an effective fashion."

Lemme get this straight... you clowns finally get the government you want in the White House, but it's not your fault that you didn't give them the proper training to do your bidding?

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[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute - I'm still doing the math here. If the president gave 110%, then he could effectively get 90% of the mental half of the war?

Let's say there's 1 war, and .5 of it is physical, .5 mental, and 90% of that is 0.45 wars, and the president is only giving 100%, so he's only accounting for 0.41 wars.

Therefore the President's mentation is equivalent to 41% of a war!

Got it, dude. Thanks.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

We're hiring you to do the taxes at the Project for a New American Century. I mean, if you can make sense out of nonsense, you'll love their books.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

You forgot to factor in that the president is completely mental.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

> Lemme get this straight... you clowns finally get the government you
> want in the White House, but it's not your fault that you didn't give
> them the proper training to do your bidding?

What he's complaining about is that Bush failed to commit the resources necessary (according to Schmitt) to make it work: Several hundred thousand troops for five to ten years.

In other words, you propose a scheme your pet president can't possibly implement in its fully over-the-top lunatic form, and then you don't have to be wrong when the watered-down-to-merely-insane form doesn't work.

Sheer genius. Being a neocon means never having to say you're sorry.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

What is a neocon? Is it a conservative that can punch through walls and jump over skyscrapers?

(Seriously, does neocon mean anything?)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's one of those media labels that basically means "hawk". It's supposed to help distinguish those clowns from real conservatives.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

<http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/neocon101.html> (http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/neocon101.html)

Quack!

[bebopmonkey.livejournal.com]

Another well-crafted ducking of responsibility

YM

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

"you can't make them drink the Kool-Aid."