Who cuts and runs? Republicans, of course.

H.D.S. Greenway The Boston Globe

Published: June 21, 2006
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/21/opinion/edgreen.php

BOSTON -- {snips} Last week the White House operative Karl Rove traveled to New Hampshire to pump up the faithful by telling them that if Democrats had their way, Iraq would have fallen to terrorists. "When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running," Rove said.

Never mind that there were no terrorists in a position to take over in Iraq before the U.S. invasion. What struck me about Rove's speech was "the old pattern of cutting and running" bit. I don't remember that either Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt, both Democrats, had advocated cutting and running in World Wars I and II. If I remember correctly, a good part of the opposition to Roosevelt's efforts to keep democracy alive in Europe came from the Republican Party.

And wasn't it Dwight Eisenhower, the Republicans' first successful presidential candidate in 20 years, who campaigned on the promise, "I will go to Korea" to bring that unpopular war to a close?

And in Lebanon, it was Ronald Reagan, a Republican, who decided to cut and run when the marines he had sent ashore were bombed in their barracks.

So it's a little hard to discern what "old pattern" Rove is talking about . . .

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...turned and ran from Iraq in Gulf war 1. Very wisely, in fact.

When Clinton decided to stop the bloodshed in Croatia, the pubs cut and ran away from the United States position, a position that finally stopped that awful terror.

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Ya know, it really has to irritate the shit out of the rovians to see the people calling them out on their lies. Sure, we here are just hacking away with a little ol' knife, for now, but they aren't stupid, they know our knives are getting longer and sharper everyday.

They really do hate us for our freedoms.

and cut and ran on 9/11.

He even cut and ran during Hurricane Katrina.

Stop taxpayer funding of republicon Big Government propaganda.

Tell America the truth.

the plan: "fight them there . . ."

How else do they explain new groups adopting al-Qaeda's moniker? They accomodate the Bush regime's imperious protection racket.

He did everything but recruit and arm them and that is even in question.

is sure wasn't LBJ, was it?

when, EXACTLY, did democrats LAST 'cut & run'?

by the truth. Eisenhower cut and ran from Korea, Nixon cut and ran from Viet Nam, Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon, and Poppy Bush cut and ran from Iraq War I,(as Sec. of Defense Dick Cheney advised at the time). It seems the only cutting and running Bush the lesser is willing to consider is cutting taxes for the super rich and running up world record deficits for generations to come!