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KY-04: GOP Rep. Davis Has No Idea How Many Soldiers Died This Month
GOP Rep. Geoff Davis -- a member of the party which claims to be the one grasping the importance of the Iraq war -- yesterday revealed that he didn't have any idea whatsoever how many U.S. soldiers had died in October. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that when he was asked how many had died this month at a debate with Dem challenger Ken Lucas, Davis replied: "I believe it is 17." The questioner rejoined : "It's more like 71." Lucas pounced, saying Davis "minimizes what's going on" in Iraq. And then, referring to the fact that 17 and 71 are mirror images of each other, Lucas quipped that Davis is "dyslexic."
Kos adds that Davis "also was one of those calling Murtha a coward for suggesting an Iraq pullout timeline."
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Paul Wolfowitz had no idea how many soldiers were killed back in 04.
Bush made jokes about how our troops couldn't find WMD while they were in Iraq, getting killed while trying to find WMD.
"Now, watch this drive."
"Democracy is messy."
Someone, a journalist, maybe, should thread together the disinterested crass approach the Republicans have taken in this war.
It'd probably make a great story.
Dissent Protects Democracy.
October 20, 2006 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is not Vietnam!
October 20, 2006 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep--the Bush Administration hasn't even done the requisite work to get to the point where you can have a serious conversation about what they have done, and it dates back to before the invasion. (And these guys are the "adults...in charge?") The infamous "missing slide" about reconstruction plans, the cavalier/bullying approach to pre-war diplomacy, the Heritage internship approach to Coalition Authority staffing, the "my toy! mine!" tack with the UN's efforts to help, the word games about insurgents/dead-enders etc...the list just goes on.
They proposed an ultra radical solution to an intractable problem. They want all the praise for "the vision thing" but have never done all of the hard work necessary to make it a success. There is no evidence they ever realized a lot of hard work was even necessary. I'm tempted to say it's par for the course for a guy whose entire life has been an exercise in "my dog ate it" excuse-making, but that might make David Broder cry.
October 20, 2006 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Flowers and chocolate, man. Flowers and chocolate...
Dissent Protects Democracy.
October 20, 2006 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
War is a failure of foreign policy. Period. If you are one of these neophyte Spartans who thinks that war is waay cool, then, you probably don't know much about war. But people that manage to survive war are willing to do almost anything to prevent it from happening. How long must we wait while these morons get their education from the school of hard knocks? Some of us, quite rightly, predicted, as early as the summer of 2002, how this Iraq misadventure would turn out: and utter disaster. And we tried to stop the unreasoning juggernaut. But then, we had taken the trouble to familiarize ourselves with the history of the region, and learn the difference between Shiia and Sunni.
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" -Niels Bohr
October 20, 2006 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. It's Iraq. And it's not a war. It's an invasion and an occupation. And none of our objectives, going in, have been achieved. It sucks to be us. We have truly liberated the Iraqi's. They are now totally free to choke on excrement and die.
"If you talk about it, even the simplest thing becomes complex and incomprehensible." -Herman Hesse
October 20, 2006 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dissent shelters your soul.
October 20, 2006 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
There are no, as in zero, zilch, nil, Republicans who know how many troops have died in Iraq. Even less care, or want to talk about it.
October 20, 2006 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink