A blast from the past. …And it’s twenty-six years old. Wow.
Tag: troops
May the Fourth Be With You.
This is a somewhat different Troops than you’re accustomed to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EDiQXhYIKY
Different theme song (somebody probably complained), much better video quality. So it goes.
Advice for the President: how to handle the antiwar Democrats.
No, really.
I read with some interest this article which describes a supposed Blue-on-Blue fight looming over the upcoming reduction of troops:
Congressional Democrats’ misgivings about President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce troop levels in Iraq has set the stage for potentially major conflicts between Capitol Hill and the White House in the months ahead.
Obama’s announcement Friday that he will leave between 35,000 and 50,000 troops in Iraq after August 2010 brought lukewarm responses from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Both leaders have publicly questioned the decision to leave that many troops there indefinitely.
Also causing consternation is the president’s decision to finish the drawdown in 18 months. As a candidate, Obama had promised a complete withdrawal within 16 months.
Being a kind and generous soul who understands that we’re all in this together, on behalf of the neoconservative movement I am here to offer the President a little advice on how to keep antiwar legislators in line. We did it for eight years, after all; two of which were years where our party was ostensibly not the one running Congress. Heck, our best work was done between 2006-2008. So you can believe that we know that we’re talking about. Continue reading Advice for the President: how to handle the antiwar Democrats.