Molly Ivins: Cut'n'Run Week

Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
06.27.06
Justice, fairness, and flipping
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AUSTIN, Texas -- And then along comes Cut'n'Run Casey. We spend all last week listening to cut'n'run Democrats talking about their cut'n'run strategy for Iraq, and the only issue is whether they want to cut'n'run by the end of this year or to cut'n'run by the end of next year, and oh, by the way, did I mention that Republicans had been choreographed to refer to the Democrats' plans as cut'n'run?

As Vice President Dick ("Last Throes") Cheney said Thursday, redeployment of our troops would be "the worst possible thing we could do. ... No matter how you carve it -- you can call it anything you want -- but basically it is packing it in, going home, persuading and convincing and validating the theory that the Americans don't have the stomach for this fight."

Then right in the middle of Cut'n'Run Week, the top American commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., held a classified briefing at the Pentagon and revealed his plan to reduce the 14 combat brigades now in Iraq to five or six. And here's the best part: Rather than wait 'til the end of this year or, heaven forefend, next year, Casey wants to start moving those troops out in September, just before whatever it is that happens in early November. They don't call him George W. Jr. for nothing.

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...... I say Karl Rove doesn't make timing mistakes. This administration thoroughly believes the media and the people have a collective recollection of no more than one day. Five days of cut'n'run, one day off and BAM, you get your own cut'n'run plan out there.

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Fuck 'em! let em fight it themselves. I say piss right on them!

What you do when you are being dragged to the bottom and must extricate yourself?

may have a *lot* more to do with recent state visit by our largest creditor (China) rather than any listening to the polling numbers.

But in any event, Rove figured to hang the "cut and run" label on the Dems, and then, depending on the coverage of the Iraq war in September, will say either "See, we stayed the course and didn't cut 'n run like those cowardly Dems and we now have a stable Iraq" OR they will say "The liberal press and the Dems LOST this war for us, cause if we had the backing of the country we could have stayed and won... just like Vietnam!"

But really, we can't pay our bills, and the Chinese masters just told us they aren't going to float that much more debt.
So we have to take our toys and go home.

Oh my, that sounds so dishonest.