Perry, I’m not faulting you for criticizing Bush. If you get an adult to help you read my last post, he’ll tell you that I said that Bush has made mistakes. I criticized you because you don’t make criticisms from any set of principles, you just type whatever comes into your pretty little head. You don’t want Bush to keep doing what he’s been doing, but you ridicule him for announcing he’s working on changing his strategy. That’s not good faith, constructive criticism, it’s useless bitching.
Powell and Gingrich both criticized Bush, but from different directions – Gingrich would support sending more troops under certain circumstances, Powell doesn’t think that will help. You can’t cite both of them as though they supported your point of view unless your point of view is no more sophisticated than ‘whatever Bush does is wrong, no matter what it is’ – which I think you’ve demonstrated is a fair summary.
Since we’re citing Republican luminaries, I can’t help but point out that I’ve criticized you and others for describing Iraq as hopeless and unwinnable; my position is that that description is wrong. Gingrich and Powell both support my position – Gingrich says the only exit strategy is victory, and while Powell says, “we’re not winning, we are losing,” he also says “We haven’t lost.” So Gingrich, Powell, Bush, and I all think Iraq is winnable, and you think what, exactly?
