A few conservative voices rise up from the lock-step

"a symbol of the inescapable fact that the war has been run incompetently, with an apparently deliberate contempt for history, strategy and thought, and with too little regard for the American soldier, whose mounting casualties seem to have no effect on the boastfulness of the civilian leadership." - Mark Helprin The Wall Street Journal 5/17/04

"Well, that's right, he did drive us into a ditch," "Or not into a ditch — we've had a slight — we've slightly veered off the road" - William Kristol of The Weekly Standard, on the Daily Show comparing President George W. Bush's prosecution of the war in Iraq to a driver who ended up in a ditch.

"I supported the war and now I feel foolish." - CNN's Tucker Carlson to the New York Times

[the president had squandered the trust of the American people]. "After the [weapons of mass destruction] intelligence debacle and the Abu Ghraib disgrace, he [Bush] has run out of that capital. He has to tell us how we will win, what we are doing, how it all holds together, why the infrastructure repair is still in disarray and how a political solution is possible. I'm not sure any more that this president has the skills or competence to pull it off." - Andrew Sullivan: 5/19/04 on his web blog

“There has been poor strategic thinking in this. There has been poor operational planning and execution on the ground. And to think that we are going to ‘stay the course,’ the course is headed over Niagara Falls. I think it's time to change course a little bit, or at least hold somebody responsible for putting you on this course. Because it's been a failure.
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." - Retired General Anthony Zinni

'We need to restrain what are growing U.S. messianic instincts, a sort of global social engineering where the United States feels it is both entitled and obligated to promote democracy, by force if necessary. Liberty cannot be laid down like so much Astroturf. Law and order must come first." - Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), conservative chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee

And then you have the zealotry and arrogance of people like.....:

[what happened at the prison] "is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation…. You ever heard of needing to blow some steam off?" - Rush Limbaugh

Where do you stand??

Can't wait to hear all these conservative voices who dare to question our Iraq policy, being dismissed as "hate filled Liberals".

So I guess Republicans are also getting weary of the neocons constant "You must support Bush or you love terrorists and hate America" rhetoric. Truly though, I didn't think it was going to work forever.

I guess Rove and the Republican hate machine will have to think up some new tactics to silence all criticism.

Last edited by whomod; 2004-05-25 7:08 AM.