Sunday, April 18, 2004
NOW Who's Flip-Flopping?
Match the following statements with their authors.
"The Administration's campaign has been a disaster. It turned a guerrilla war into a real war, and the real losers are the civilians."
"I had doubts about the bombing from the beginning. I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic arena."
The President "Has no plan for the end. He ought to exercize some leadership and admit [the mistake], and come to some sort of negotiated end."
"It's not useful for the President's spin machine to be out there saying [the enemy] is weakening...Nothing has changed."
Our forces face "a quagmire. A long, protracted, bloody war."
"I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal [of the enemy forces], have a stopping of the bombing, and the simultaneous insertion of international peacekeeping forces."
"When Ronald Reagan saw that he had made a mistake in putting our soldiers in Lebanon, he admitted the mistake. And he withdrew from Lebanon."
So who said these things? Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, and Barbara Boxer?
No.
John Kerry, Cynthia McKinnon, Howard Dean, and Hillary Clinton?
Wrong again.
Those statements were uttered by Republicans Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, and Don Nickles. In 1999. And noted by Slate's William Saletan.
Here's his prophetic closer:
Some Democrats call Republicans who make these arguments unpatriotic. Republicans reply that they're serving their country by debunking and thwarting a bad policy administered by a bad president. You can be sure of only two things: Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time.
Heh. Losers.
Nice work, Bill.
By the way Milosevic's doing prison time.
Splash, out
Jason
"The Administration's campaign has been a disaster. It turned a guerrilla war into a real war, and the real losers are the civilians."
"I had doubts about the bombing from the beginning. I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic arena."
The President "Has no plan for the end. He ought to exercize some leadership and admit [the mistake], and come to some sort of negotiated end."
"It's not useful for the President's spin machine to be out there saying [the enemy] is weakening...Nothing has changed."
Our forces face "a quagmire. A long, protracted, bloody war."
"I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal [of the enemy forces], have a stopping of the bombing, and the simultaneous insertion of international peacekeeping forces."
"When Ronald Reagan saw that he had made a mistake in putting our soldiers in Lebanon, he admitted the mistake. And he withdrew from Lebanon."
So who said these things? Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, and Barbara Boxer?
No.
John Kerry, Cynthia McKinnon, Howard Dean, and Hillary Clinton?
Wrong again.
Those statements were uttered by Republicans Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, and Don Nickles. In 1999. And noted by Slate's William Saletan.
Here's his prophetic closer:
Some Democrats call Republicans who make these arguments unpatriotic. Republicans reply that they're serving their country by debunking and thwarting a bad policy administered by a bad president. You can be sure of only two things: Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time.
Heh. Losers.
Nice work, Bill.
By the way Milosevic's doing prison time.
Splash, out
Jason
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