WSJ Editor on Bush's Iraq Strategy: 'I Don't Think He Has To Adjust'

[Mark E. Smith]

Think Progress 12/03/06

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot brushed
aside notions that the deteriorating situation in Iraq warranted a change in strategy
from President Bush. Gigot said, "I don't think he has to adjust" or "announce some
new grand strategy."

The key to success in Iraq, according to Gigot, is for the President to show "resolve"
and wrap "his arms around (Iraqi Prime Minister) Maliki."

Gigot, one of the primary media cheerleaders for the war in Iraq, finds himself
increasingly isolated. Even outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
acknowledged in a recent memo that "it is time for a major adjustment.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/03/wall-street-journal-iraq/

Of course Gidgit's priorities are certain to be more business leaning, and any actual
concern regarding the slaughter in Iraq is probably besides the point for him. And
with so many of the people he dines with making huge profits off of all this misery,
why would he want anything to change?

[goforit]

1. Reasons why I never purchase the WSJ.

[w4rma]

7. Exactly. Never give any money to the owners of that extremist rag. (nt)

[mdmc]

2. we either lose or we be honest

we need clear objectives and overwhelming force. All Bush needs to do is admit that it won't be cheap or easy; it will cost a lot of tax dollars, lives, and time.

Hope is still there - all w. needs to do is listen to poppy and convince the USA that taxes should be raised to pay for the war.:eyes:

[Downtown Hound]

3. The WSJ loses so much credibility

because of the nutjobs they have on their editorial board. I never read the paper but I hear that their market information is first rate. But this is clouded by the idiots they have editorializing for them, and I've read enough of them to know that I wouldn't touch the WSJ with a ten foot pole even if I was a stockbroker.

[rfranklin]

4. But this is preaching to the choir for most of Wall Street...

where they would sell their mother and rape their father to make a buck.

[AndyTiedye]

14. The Financial Times is Much Better than the Wall Street Urinal

The WSJ often lets its love affair with the Republicans and PNAC get in the way of honest financial reporting.
They are also way too cozy with the corporations whose financial information they report.

The Financial Times is much more reliable.

[Phredicles]

5. 'Cause "showing resolve" has worked so fabulously well so far...

:eyes: :eyes: :puke: :eyes: :puke:

[Amonester]

6. Amonester says ** should show remorse...

confess all his crimes and war crimes, and wrap his arms around his own chest to make it easier for a law officer to put a pair of handcuffs around his guilty wrists.

That would be one of the first right things to do.

BFEE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x3087
Impeach & Indict &
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x260
Imprison
http://imprisonbush.com/index.php

[brentspeak]

8. Idgit.

[pink-o]

9. Was this the same editor....

...who called those below the poverty line "Lucky Duckies" because they didn't have to pay federal income tax????


'Nuf said!


http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002937

[Frank Cannon]

10. I love the Ruben Bolling parody of that

[Blue_Tires]

15. lol.....

thanks for posting this

[yellowcanine]

20. Don't know but he applauded the pubbie thugs in Florida who stopped the ballot recount

in Miami-Dade County. Called it a "bourgeois riot." So that is all you need to know about the good judgement of Mr. Gigot.

[Rose Siding]

11. Surely Mr Gigot's stock portfolio is heavy with defense industry investments

What else but greed could account for someone so informed to hold this ridiculous position?

[Skittles]

12. please remind me in which branch of the military Mr. Gigot served

oh, why do I even bother

[AndyTiedye]

13. GIGOt = Garbage In, Garbage Out

[LynnTheDem]

16. What an intelligent person!

Every year Iraq has deteriorated more and more.

So bush shuold just show "resolve" and continue to do what he's been doing.
Coz that'll make everything better.

ROTFLMAO!!!

The republic party; stupidest MFers on the planet.

[oblivious]

17. The definition of insanity, as has been pointed out here many times.

[susu369]

18. wrap "his arms around (Iraqi Prime Minister) Maliki." - oh, brother

End is near in Babylon
BY ERIC S. MARGOLIS
3 December 2006

--snip--
But Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Al Maliki, governs only over Baghdad’s US-protected Green Zone. The US controls what passes for Iraq’s police and armed forces. Maliki has no army of his own; his Shia supporters are divided and feuding. How can Bush expect a powerless prime minister to do what the mighty US cannot?

full story:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2006/December/opinion_December11.xml§ion=opinion&col=

[Massachusetts]

19. COMMENT IS FROM

JUST ANOTHER CORPORATE PIG AT THE TROUGH.

[Cha]

21. Wonder if paul Idiot gigot were

to somehow have his skinny white ass transported to the front lines in Iraq if he would still be goin' on fauxsnews and sayin' ol' lyin' bush didn't need to adjust?