Tony Snow, whose body is riddled with cancer and whose brain is softened and Swiss cheese like, from repeated onslaughts of chemo therapy, has proven to be the ultimate go to guy, for the Bush administration, when it wants to get out the word on its accomplishments in Iraq. The fact that he could die at any moment, goes a long way toward explaining why he is willing to go out on a limb, to champion their cause.
Guest hosting the O'Reilly Factor on Fox Cable today, Snow called Nancy Pelosi a traitor for refusing to declare "mission accomplished" over the US Army's murderous incursion last week, into the Southern Iraqi city of Basra.
Iraqi and coalition forces could have negotiated a return of civil authority to Basra. They could have targeted the criminal elements actually engaged in siphoning off oil revenues at the Basra shipping point. They could have publicly defined their intentions prior to the incursion of troops into the city. They did none of these things. They went in shooting. They targeted only the forces of Moctada al-Sadr.
When things went horribly wrong for them, they went to the Iranians for intercession with the Mehdis. In response to their pleas, al-Sadr reinstated the cease fire and stuck to it, even in the face of continued bloodshed and extreme provocation by coalition forces. The fiction of political progress by the Maliki administration and of American control in Iraq were exposed as a farce.
By the time Nouri Maliki was ready to flee his embattled command post, in Saddam's old Basra Palace, it was surrounded by Mehdi army gunmen, on whose charity he would have to depend for safe passage. He was rescued by American Special Forces in helicopter gunships, in a scene reminiscent of the "last man out" retreat, from the American embassy in Saigon.
Yeah, that bad Nancy Pelosi. What an evil bitch.
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