Posted by Lee Russ on 8/4/2007, 5:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Bad News From Iraq" If that point of Bob's Latest is egregiously wrong, why expect the other two points to be right? As to Clyburn's comment: http://mediamatters.org/items/200708040001?f=h_top If it's agitprop crap from the right, Bob will find it every time. And of course he doesn't have to check any of his claims out--after all they came from the "liberal media" so by definition, reality must be more damning to Dems than the paper said, right. Utter, utter crap.
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Shock of all shocks!!!!! The crap about Clyburn saying success in Iraq would be a big problem for Dems is.....CRAP. He didn't say that. during a July 30 "PostTalk" interview for washingtonpost.com, Post reporter Dan Balz asked Clyburn, "What do Democrats do if General Petraeus comes in in September and says, 'This is working very, very well at this point; we would be foolish to back away from it'?" Clyburn responded: "Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that, simply because of those 47 Blue Dogs. I think there would be enough support in that group to want to stay the course, and if the Republicans were to remain united, as they have been, then it would be a problem for us." In other words, Clyburn did not say that good news from Iraq is bad news for Democrats, as many conservatives have suggested. Rather, he said that a recommendation from Petraeus against "back[ing] away" from the current course in Iraq would impede Democrats' efforts to garner support in Congress for legislation to begin withdrawal. Indeed, Clyburn added: "None of us want to see a bad result in Iraq. If we are going to get in position to yield a good result, I think Democrats want to see that."
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