arithmetic & grammar…

Posted on Tuesday 27 February 2007

Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post compiled the numbers for us today. I was wondering about these numbers Sunday when Condi was saying, "I can’t imagine a circumstance in which it’s a good thing that their [the Generals] flexibility is constrained by people sitting here in Washington, sitting in the Congress, trying to micromanage this war." First, she said it like The Generals were the ones waging this war. This isn’t a war, it’s target practice – and our children are the targets. The Generals, given a choice, would get their troops out of there in a blue second.

But there’s another Talking Point that’s part of their new rhetoric. They insert "Congress" into sentences that should have "the American People" instead. They’re trying to imply that the evil liberal democratic Congress is trying to obstruct their brave courageous brilliant persevering conduct of the war. What they’re ignoring is that the American People oppose what they’re doing more than the Congress does – by a much stronger majority. They’re ignoring the fact that those numbers contain a lot of the Conservative, Christian, Republican people – the people that elected them in the first place, decent people who were manipulated and lied to from the start. And who better to "micromanage" this war than the parents and supporters of the children fighting in it?

It looks to me like the audience for the Administration "spin" is finally catching on…

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