Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House

How does victory in Iraq not being just around the corner prove anything?

Brandon9000 wrote:

How does victory in Iraq not being just around the corner prove anything?

Are you saying you disagree with Donald Rumsfeld's assessment that the current troubles are just the last fight of a few desparate holdouts? Remarks like yours convey a sort of naysayer-defeatism that I really find unpatriotic.

I'm saying that a war not being won quickly and easily proves neither that it shouldn't have been commenced, nor that it's being implemented poorly. Go ahead and try to change the subject again, if that's your best strategy.

Brandon9000 wrote:

I'm saying that a war not being won quickly and easily proves neither that it shouldn't have been commenced, nor that it's being implemented poorly. Go ahead and try to change the subject again, if that's your best strategy.

Oh, but the subject of this thread isn't "War in Iraq shouldn't have been commenced, is implemented poorly". It is "Bush backs brother Jeb for White House." People here are making fun of George W. Bush's war rhetoric because it reflects his administration's culture of suppressing inconvenient truths, and of smearing and firing people for pointing them out.

The memory of this culture may well make American voters decline to vote for a president Jeb Bush. Pointing this out is not "changing the subject". It is an important part of the subject.

To the extent that the references to victory being "just around the corner" are intended to be a comment about "suppressing inconvenient truths," I have insufficient interest to comment at this time.

US right looks to Bush the younger

Vice President Jeb Bush was sworn in as Pesident today following the tragic and mysterious death of President John McCain.....I can see it now....