Now he tells us
By Steve Benen Sunday Jul 22, 2007 7:09amAs E&P reports, "In a letter to the editor published [yesterday] by The New York Times, Sen. Christopher ("Kit") Bond of Missouri, an influential Republican, declares that the administration until recently had the "wrong plan" for Iraq for three years. Unfortunately, he did not tell anyone about his concerns until today. Bond's letter, meant to praise the current 'surge' effort, raised the question of how often he had spoken out against the 'wrong plan' since 2003."
Glenn Greenwald offers the answer: Bond hadn't spoken out at all.
So, according to Bond, we (by the way) had the "wrong plan" for the last three years as we waged war in Iraq. That's all -- we just spent the last three years waging war with the "wrong plan." But no worries, because now -- Bond assures us -- we have the right plan.
That being the case, one would expect that Kit Bond spent the last three years protesting our war strategy, lamenting our lack of progress, and demanding that we change course. Needless to say, he did exactly the opposite. While he now claims that the last three years were a failure because we had the wrong strategy, Bond -- like the vast, vast majority of the Republican Party and war supporters generally -- spent the last three years telling Americans that we had the right strategy and were winning in Iraq, while attacking and demonizing those who suggested otherwise.
Typical.
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Frist.
So he was for the war before he was against it, or he was against the war before he was for it?!
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Better never than late...
...or something like that.
this guy is my senator. been calling and emailing him for 2 years now. of all the people on the hill i call, which is many, his interns are the most aggressive and snippy. try them out, they will get in your face, over the phone!
Poor littler Wayne, I'm sure he was just helping the other man he was with with his drug habit, and trying to lead him away from the criminal life by taking that weapon of his hands...
Yeah, we hear a lot of that shit from the Repug candidates too.
"The invasion was botched, we didn't send in enough troops to occupy the country, if only we had killed more, tortured more, arrested more, hanged more- then everything would be hunky-dory now."
What they won't tell us is the truth. That invading Iraq was unnecessary, unneeded, and stupid. The only thing stupider is the idea that somehow things will get better in 6 months, 5 years or 50 years.
Time to cut our losses and get out. And, it will be Bush who lost- not the Democrats.
Oh, those darn politicians... aren't they somethin'...
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"...we just spent the last three years waging war with the “wrong plan.” "
And what has changed?
Sometime in late June, Bond wrote an editorial comparing Bush and the Iraq quagmire to Lincoln and the Civil War.
What would have happened if Lincoln had caved to his critics..etc..etc..
It was a bizarre comparison,and for several days the St Louis Post Dispatch ran replies against Bonds editorial.
Bond has a history of entrenched ideology, for intance while chairman of the small business commitee he blocked every effort to list repetitive motion injuries as job related while he himself had an operation to repair a repetitive motion injury on his wrist.
He said the injury occured from shaking hands over the years......phftt!
They could come up with another 50 plans.
It doesn't matter what they do.
Bush will continue to screw it up.
Bush ALWAYS screws it up.
Radically Moderate @ 10:
Of course, he ignored the salient difference.
Lincoln wasn't an idiot; Bush is.
Los Populisto @ 5:
You are right. Anytime I call to complain about the Senators voting, they get snippy and challenging.
Bond has always refered to his opposition constituancy as his enemies. Imagine that, half of the people that he represents are his enemy.
Tooooooo late! Sorry - but thanks for playing, jackass!
Bond: If he knows now what he knew then, he's making himself just as complicit and criminal in all of the unnecessary deaths of our loved ones who were sacrificed for their "botched plan". Kit's hands are as bloody as any of the Bush Cabal for supporting this criminal genocide of our military.
"Where men build on false grounds, the more they build the geater is the ruin." Thomas Hobbes
I'd say that the Bush election of 2000 and 2004 constitute the "false grounds" to which Hobbes is referring and what we are witnessing (nothing credible done in 6 years) is precisely the outcome Thomas Hobbes speaks about in his famous quote. When the foundation is not legitimate, the creation will crumble. That's the Bush legacy.
That he hadn't complained before is not as upsetting as that right now he thinks everything is peachy.
I know how it felt to be a German with a conscience in 1933.
Beware. Most of these Republican chameleons are working to get re-elected. They'll fall right back in line as though they never left after the election.
Okay.
So when do they start recognizing all the other "wrongs" perpetrated by the Bush administration?
Another Rethug. Flip-Flopper running scared.
All I know is thank God these buffoons weren’t in charge when Pearl Harbor was attacked, we’d all be reading these posts vertically.
He is my senator as well and responds with form letters of Republican talking points every time.
Bond needs to be horse-whipped for even uttering this claim at this point. This bull$#!+ is much too little way too late, with not much promise of the remedy being that successful. He's facilitated his party's abusive screwing of the pooch before he decided this late in the day to note that just maybe this act of bestiality was not the best idea after all. BEAT HIM!
Then he needs to have his open welts packed with salt and doused with the Jack Daniels he's been guzzling for not joining the sensible Republicans who are calling for immediate troop withdrawal.
Then America should chase this cowardly dimwit back to Missouri, tarred and feathered, for joining up with the GOP to wage the ruse on the American public in the first place.
Fucktard!
"We the people" have lost this country because of bush/cheney ass kissers like this - on both sides of the aisle.
Why is it so hard for elected officials to do their jobs?
Ho, hum. Another Republican hedges his bet by trying to have it both ways - remain attached to the Shrub's rectum while simultaneously "sounding" critical of the direction of the war (without sounding too negative). Who needs John Kerry, the alleged "Flip-flopper" when you have so many Republians who change their mind with a frequency proportional to proximity to November 2008?
"Kit Bond is a realist"-cable news toadies
History is going to look back at all these delayed accounts of Bush administration/Republican incompetence and disinformation pretty harshly. Over time, people shed their sense of loyalty and speak truth to power. Like right here for instance - probably a much more significant example
VIDEO
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=1bb4e8a6-a122-4c89-...
Sounds like Colbert needs to do another edition of "Profiles...In Timing".
How long before he disowns the "surge" and gets on board with the latest delaying tactic masquerading as a plan? I'm thinking mid-September.
Paul @ 19:
I know how it feels to be a Jew with a conscience from 1948 - 2007. -- [Did the Nazis occupy - oppress and abuse people for 40 + years?)
I dont think he's really flip-flopping, he's just dutifully passing along the latest talking points. The RNC probably shopped this around until they found someone to sign it and ask the NYT to print it.
Its crass shit like this that undermines what little hope they have for an extension of the deployment. Then again, people are stupid, it might help. Whats the old saying, "You'll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public.".
Los Populisto @ 5:
He's the senator from Missourah but doesn't represent me or my family or friends.
I wonder just why I moved here 25 yrs ago. What a mistake.
I lost many years of progress when we arrived here. Medically we went back about a century.
Not BACK TO THE FUTURE but AHEAD TO THE PAST.
I too have tried to corresond with him (by letter or email). If I get a response (rarely) I get a dik chain e type answer - go F urself. What happened to America?
Hope everyone in the "bible-belt" are happy with our little toady. Oh, how I wish "Kits" name is on the DC madames list.
If one is a conservative Republican, one can support George W. Bush no matter what, out of party loyalty and/or "patriotism." Then when Bush is exposed as an ignoramus, and his policies are proved to be failures, one may admit his strategies were flawed without being identified with them...even after supporting them wholeheartedly all along.
How is this possible? Call it the "Fox Network Fair and Balanced Law of Unintended Consequences." Here's how it works: You decide in advance whom you favor (in Fox' case, it's Bush). You accuse the other side (in this case, Democrats) of disloyalty or "playing politics" if they oppose your man. When the other side is proven right that your man is the village idiot (though they don't say that), you accuse them of "not having an alternate plan" or "sympathizing with terrorists."
Kit Bond isn't embarrassed, nor is Bush. Such people are beyond embarrassment.
I'm obliged to admit that I was wrong for the first three years of the war, too. Turns out Kit Bond is a much bigger a**hole than I'd ever imagined.
I agree with all that has been said about Repugs wanting it both ways and Kit playing both sides. He is, however, one of the few people voting about the war who actually has a child over there fighting it.
Unless the solution of this representative includes a full mobilization, a draft and a declaration of war, It aint worth spit on a summer day in fallujah.
Everybody in, or everybody out....
(they won't vote for everybody in, This guy might cuz his son is already there, but the rest of them...not likely)
that "frist" thing never gets old
Revulver @ 40:
Nor do the Cooler-Than-Thou comments criticising it.
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