Well, this is a another standard response from the Bush league White House. Talk about benchmarks that don't really exist so it makes it just that much easier to say we are winning when we get to move nonexistent benchmarks to our liking.
The reality is that there is not a functioning government in Iraq; only a bunch of figureheads holed up in an isolated fortress called the Green Zone. What the surge is about is trying buy time to establish an entirely new functioning government under a totalitarian executive to suppress sectarian differences within the government and slowly expand the rule of that new authority. The new government must then establish some beachhead beyond the Green Zone to demonstrate its power.
The Bush talk of requiring Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki to take a stand is really a challenge to see if he can consolidate enough power and become the dictatorial leader that Iraq needs. Democracy isn't working in Iraq and the Bush/Cheney view of an Imperial Executive fits right in with their need to establish a dictator controlling the disparate factions by fear and force.
The Press Corps getting the daily Snow job is just more of the usual casting of ambiguities over public policies to allow the real and secret policies time to play out.

No Tony, you don't need bench marks. You and the whole Bush crime family have been so accurate in your predictions about Iraq that of course we just hang on your every word.

How stupid do you take the American public for Mr. Snowjob? There are many of us that you can not fool no matter how hard you try and how many lies you tell.

How does it feel to be the Mess (I mean Press) Secretary to the worst, most corrupt administration in the history of America? That will look great on your resume, Press Secretary to the Worst President, George Walker Bush, in the history of America. Lie on, Mr. Snowjob, we are not believing a word you say.

Congress needs to defund the White House in the next budget. Congress needs to pay the two Constitutionally mandated jobs but the rest iis accessory. Imagine the Chimp and the Penguin answering phones and giving their own press conferences.

Mr. Adlof, I do not believe it takes less time to hate each press secretary. I do, however, believe that it takes less and less time to recognize the lack of respect each press secretary of the BushCo Administration has for the rest of the country: reporters, citizens, elected officials, and even the populations of other countries interested in the outcome of our current destruction of another country.

Growing up in the fifties meant you were forced into hours of playing the game " mother may I " which was all about one step forward three steps back.How could I have known it was meant to prepare me for adult life. A glimmer of hope than those hopes dashed by the kid calling the shots.

The last one leaving the country, please turn off the lights.
I agree with what "Nevervote..." says, Mr. Snow is not truthful at all.
I know I am dreaming but just once when Mr. Snow opens his mouth, I wish someone in that press corp would just call him the liar that he is.
"Nevervote..." this is what you get for falling for the c-student (twice) instead of the class egghead or true Vietnam-ear War Veteran.
What a mess. I'm looking for my flip-flops and going to the beach.

MarchDancer,

You are correct . . . Snow left the Fox Opinion-Cast station already despised by me and whole bunches of other folk cuz of his crap-arse attitude towards the intelligence of the American people. He had a running start down the rabbit hole . . .

Props for calling this one.

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