There may be no one less knowledgeable on military strategies than me. But even I know that a plan to defund the war entails funding for a draw-down. That has to be executed safely so that each remaining number of troops left behind are protected and supported. It takes planning and months.

It doesn't mean that next weeks they are all left there stranded with no food, medicine or transport home. The same thing had to be done in Vietnam, only much later than it should have been, and that much later than should have been is also operative here.

The troll sez: We should take the fight into their heartland and eliminate the terrorists at their source. We would have overwhelming support from the Iranian people who chafe under the brutal oppression of the mullahcracy.

At a farewell reception at Blair House for the retiring chief of protocol, Don Ensenat, who was President Bush’s Yale roommate, the president shook hands with Washington Life Magazine’s Soroush Shehabi. “I’m the grandson of one of the late Shah’s ministers,” said Soroush, “and I simply want to say one U.S. bomb on Iran and the regime we all despise will remain in power for another 20 or 30 years and 70 million Iranians will become radicalized.”

“I know,” President Bush answered.

“But does Vice President Cheney know?” asked Soroush.

President Bush chuckled and walked away.

http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/20070208-100038-4021r/

Weird. I copied that link from a post I wrote at the time. But pasting it into the url bar now, or clicking the link in my old post, well, it just converts to UPI rather than the specific story. But that url is where I took my quote for my post.

They spent days claiming that the story was being "repressed" by the librul MSM that only cares about torture when Bush does it; and Don Surber is still peddling that. (I've been blogging about it.) But one of them finally admitted that, in point of fact, CNN broke the story last Wed., before Drudge did. Don't know if Surber has caught up with that little fact even yet.

What are you talking about? Intra-blogger, navel-gazing inanities and spitting matches, vs. Ace's outrageous, filth-laden, false accusations against, as Glenn said, a former member of the CIA and a Green Beret.

And that Ace is one gutter-dwelling sick puppy, especially when it comes to females, whose genitalia clearly scare the bejeesus out of him:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6078.html

Glenn has shown no interest in the Jesse Macbeth matter, and neither have I -- not when he was considered authentic, and not afterward I. I did recently, however, post about neocon, right-wing "psychologist" Dr. Laura Schlessinger's son, who according to the LAT appears to be a nutcase who delights in slaughtering innocent Afghanis with his Army-issued rifle, and posting cartoons of raped kids & etc.

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/05/26/6488

When do you suppose the right-wing blogs will all be jumping on that, and the Army investigation now going on?

Pat Lang is a lefty?

I know, absurd. Jim Henley, who hosts my posts, is a Lang fan, and is also one who reveres F. A. Hayek as I and many libertarians do. But in this past week, we had an LGF infestation and I was given to understand by multiple of these creatures that I am a left-wing radical, and Jim was advised that his is a "Marxist site."

We got us us some real geniuses in wingnuttia; their binary world really does break down into : (a) Like Bush's Iraq War, Good (b)Not Like Bush, radical-moonbat-commie-symp-IslamoHitlerfascist-hater-of-troops.

Quoting how Jeff thinks I see myself: true conservatives

If I've told him once, it has been innumerable times, I have not accepted the "conservative" label in adulthood. But never-mind, that rant of his is just effing rambling and incoherent. Big Words and academic jargon do not substitute for a sensible point.

Seriously, he's smart enough to do some good if he'd get over whatever this obsession is that clearly hampers reasoned analysis that could otherwise be joined to some superior writing ability. I hope he sees his impairment at some point, but maybe he is dependent on the adulation of the readership he has. If so, that could be crippling and quite too bad.

I had exactly the same problem when reading here today at my son's on his 'puter, using the latest IE. Continual "Active X" error messages and IE needing to close. This also was happening for me at one other site.

Back home and with Firefox again, all is well.

Sez Fred: I was single for a long time, and, yep, I chased a lot of women," Thompson replied, chuckling, according to an attendee who took notes. "And a lot of women chased me. And those that chased me tended to catch me."

But after they caught him, why, they just held hands in the parlor. From 1985-2002 Fred Thompson was celibate, because fornication isn't biblical, and promiscuity is a threat to traditional marriage.