Michael Leon blogs at http://malcontends.blogspot.com. Michael is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared nationally in The Progressive, In These Times, OpEdNews.com, and CounterPunch.
Iraq Surge Architects Are No ‘Vince Lombardis’
Posted March 25th, 2008 by mal contends
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So when does incompetent, lying, and cowardly behavior make one a Vince Lombardi?
Having lied their way to war, and disgraced the sacrifice and courage of American troops in the field, now the war cheerleaders are saying that the chickenhawks are Vince Lombardi incarnate.
Hey fella, if you want to lie and cheat your way to a war and a disastrous occupation, that's not fine. But don't drag Lombardi's name into it.
You're out of your depth, so crawl back to the Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute, and posture about war from these safe and comfortable confines.
"I want to call them the Lombardis of this war," said Brookings analyst Michael O’Hanlon, who seems to know even less about football than war.
O'Hanlon is referring to the Surge architects who, he claims, have achieved their objective of bringing about Iraqi political reconciliation through the escalation of American troops.
See the video at ThinkProgress of these chickenhawks congratulating themselves.
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In the words of vince...
..."what the hell is going on here!"
Consider the Source
O'Hanlon from the August 2007, Washington Post article he wrote: "During our trip, the Pentagon showed us data illustrating that overall death tallies from all forms of sectarian violence were down about one-third from last winter's average. That estimate is imprecise, and vulnerable to reversal from events such as the Aug. 14 truck bombings in Nineveh province, and Iraq remains roughly as violent as it was in 2004-05. But the trends are moving significantly in the right direction,"
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082401645.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
First of all, O'Hanlon endorses statistics from the Pentagon and then goes on to say that those estimates are imprecise...? So what was his point? What a numb nut. He then has the audacity to add that those same numbers are "VULNERABLE TO REVERSAL"! But it gets better.
He claims "Iraq remains roughly AS VIOLENT AS IT WAS IN 2004-05, then says "trends are moving signifigantly in the right disrection" what kind of drugs do you think this guy picked up over there in Iraq? So consider the source, what a complete ass. And supposedly this guy went to Princeton...what, did he BUY all of research papers. Or maybe he got a scholarship the GW way.....
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