Cut and run? Hardly
Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway
06/20/06
Last week White House operative Karl Rove traveled to New Hampshire to pump up the faithful by telling them that if Democrats had their way, Iraq would have fallen to terrorists. 'When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running,' said Rove. Never mind that there were no terrorists in a position to take over in Iraq before the US invasion. What struck me about Rove's speech was 'the old pattern of cutting and running' bit. I don't remember that either Democrat Woodrow Wilson, or Franklin Roosevelt, had advocated cutting and running in World Wars I and II. If I remember correctly, a good part of the opposition to Roosevelt's efforts to keep democracy alive in Europe came from the GOP. And wasn't it Dwight D. Eisenhower, the GOP's first successful presidential candidate in 20 years, who campaigned on the promise, 'I will go to Korea' to bring that unpopular war to a close?
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by H.D.S. Greenway
06/20/06
Last week White House operative Karl Rove traveled to New Hampshire to pump up the faithful by telling them that if Democrats had their way, Iraq would have fallen to terrorists. 'When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running,' said Rove. Never mind that there were no terrorists in a position to take over in Iraq before the US invasion. What struck me about Rove's speech was 'the old pattern of cutting and running' bit. I don't remember that either Democrat Woodrow Wilson, or Franklin Roosevelt, had advocated cutting and running in World Wars I and II. If I remember correctly, a good part of the opposition to Roosevelt's efforts to keep democracy alive in Europe came from the GOP. And wasn't it Dwight D. Eisenhower, the GOP's first successful presidential candidate in 20 years, who campaigned on the promise, 'I will go to Korea' to bring that unpopular war to a close?
http://tinyurl.com/g9afv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 21. Jun, 14:25
