WashTimes: Bush officials admit the "surge" is a way to buy "a short window of time"

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070307-122150-8708r.htm

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Still, administration officials say they know that America's patience with the Iraq war has grown thin. But they think the plan to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq has bought them a short window of time.

"I think right now there's a wait-and-see attitude by the public, which is what we were hoping for," said a senior Bush administration official. "While there hasn't been a spike in support for it, it's almost a pay-as-you-go approach, and as they see a little bit of progress, they'll buy you a little more time."

Polls continue to show substantial opposition to the president's surge.
Those polls, the senior White House official said, are "all depending on how you frame the questions." The public is "more inclined to wait and see how this new strategy works more so than many of our friends on Capitol Hill."

[Bluebear]

1. Buying time, and the currency is human lives. nt

[BOSSHOG]

2. I didn't know we were "more inclined"

to let bush continue to get our kids killed because he is a liar. Outstanding piece of journalism Washington Times.

[wake.up.america]

3. Buying time for what????!!!!!

[sabra]

4. 2008 - and Bush retires to Crawford

[wake.up.america]

5. You got that right pardna. Bush will leave with the elephand droppings trailing him..

[dkofos]

6. Buying time for what? War with Iran??

[gratuitous]

7. Oh please

Re-read this paragraph, and consider how well this bunch read the polls just before the November elections, when Karl Rove was boasting that he had "the" numbers:

Polls continue to show substantial opposition to the president's surge. Those polls, the senior White House official said, are "all depending on how you frame the questions." The public is "more inclined to wait and see how this new strategy works more so than many of our friends on Capitol Hill."

The polls show public opposition, but the mouthpiece says the public is more inclined to wait and see. Uh no, dumbass, that's precisely what the polls do not show. It's your many friends on Capitol Hill who are the ones who want to bide their time, wait and see, and coincidentally watch more persons callously tossed into the meat grinder. The populations from which the grindees come has had quite enough of all of this, thank you very much.

And if our elected representatives continue to ignore our oft and clearly stated desires, they do so at their peril.