This piece by Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press is a classic. The DNC couldn’t have done a better job. Of course, Loven may want to do her own fact checking before trying to zing the president. For example, she writes:
Oh really. In fact, John Murtha, the top House Democrat on defense issues, Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean all called for an immediate drawdown of troops. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA): “There’s only two plans. One plan is the president’s plan, and that’s stay the course and hope. And there’s a plan that I’m proposing which, which calls for immediate redeployment.” “My plan says redeploy to the periphery, to Kuwait, to Okinawa. And if there’s a terrorist activity that affects our allies, or affects the United States’ national security, we can then go back in. I’m not talking about going back in to a civil war because we’re in a civil war right now. We’re caught in between a civil war right now.” Rep. Pelosi (D-CA): “What I’m her to say is what Mr. Murtha’s resolution does, and that resolution is to say that the strategic redeployment in the region, over the horizon, with a force to go in as necessary to protect us — us, American, American people — in case of acts of terrorism that could be a threat to us, or to threats to our neighbors in the region, is a better way to, is a better way to proceed.” And Howard Dean told a radio audience that American forces can’t “win the war in Iraq,” that we need to “bring the 80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home immediately,” and that the remaining force should fight Zarqawi from a “neighboring country.” Don’t hold your breath for a correction.
