Subject: Commentary: Telltale gibble-gabble Date: Tuesday, January 17, - PDF document

Subject: Commentary: Telltale gibble-gabble Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 according to frequently quoted surveys, was for several decades Walter War unwinnable and declared the United States should "get out now." "Uncle Walter" has done it again. Iraq is unwinnable, said the man documented in two massive volumes on how the media covered Tet - titled "Big Story" - the nationwide Vietcong offensive turned out to be an countries, focused on how the Vietcong guerrillas managed to blast their way into the U.S. Embassy compound (but didn't make it past the Cholon, the capital's twin city 2½ miles away. Yet the Vietcong didn't reach a single one of their objectives and up where the Vietcong left off. Cronkite's verdict is what persuaded President Johnson to throw in Perception had become reality. The last American soldier left Vietnam in March 1973 and Saigon collapsed after the U.S. Congress decided to withhold further military assistance to the South Vietnamese government. possible for another two years. Is history repeating itself in Iraq? While failure is not an option, the population). As Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's No. 2, seems to believe in his latest video, the insurgency has the United States scribes. Much quoted around the world is the cost of Iraq as calculated by Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes and Columbia's Nobel or $2 trillion, or five to 10 times higher than the $200 billion estimated by former presidential economic adviser Larry Lindsey, who the world, the Financial Times' Martin Wolf gave global resonance to the Stiglitz-Bilmes analysis, and concluded the economic cost comes out Eric Margolis in the Toronto Sun, under the headline "Fin Du Regime?" wrote, "China's Taoist philosophers warned that you become what you national income on the military." These preposterous lucubrations are now coin of the liberal realm. Judiciary Committee during the Nixon Impeachment Proceedings (1973-74). "Finally, it has started," she writes, "people have begun to speak of with the "I" word. When a questioner asked Murtha and Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., at a town Former Vice President Al Gore fed the impeachment mill on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday by accusing President Bush of tried to bring sanity back to the Iraqi debate by suggesting how the "success" option could be made "more acceptable and more likely by institutions, programs and structures." This "success" ticket would also require "a dedicated security force" and training capabilities "to accelerate the development of a stable, progressive Iraqi state."