HARRY REID CALLS PACE AND PETRAEUS INCOMPETENT

After Sen. Harry Reid criticized both Peter Pace and David Petraeus for their incompetence, the White House responded with Tony Snow implying that it was unpatriotic to criticize generals during a "time of war."

Anne Flaherty writes for AP:

"Said White House spokesman Tony Snow: "In a time of war, for a leader of a party that says it supports the military, it seems outrageous to be issuing slanders toward the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and also the man that is responsible for the bulk of military operations in Iraq."
Added Mike Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee: "Harry Reid doesn't understand that there are some lines you just don't cross.""

Here we go again with the same old line that if you criticize Bush or one of his flunkies, you get slimed and almost labeled a traitor. So, what's the difference between Hugo Chavez shutting down a TV station because he could not tolerate the criticism, and George Bush having his henchmen call Harry Reid "outrageous" for "issuing slanders towards the chairman of the Joint Chiefs?" Bush is just as bad as those autocrats who think they are not subject to criticism, and who respond in an inappropriate way.

DAVID BRODER CALLS HARRY REID "THE DEMOCRATS' GONZALES"

David Broder in his column in the Washington Post today calls Sen. Harry Reid "the Democrats' Gonzales" because Reid told the truth and said the war was lost. The catastrophic situation in Iraq is obvious. We all know it, notwithstanding Bush's hollow talking points to the contrary.

If I recall, Broder made a habit of going along with Bush and Cheney on the war in Iraq. Where was he when the war criminals were clamoring for war? Broder took their bait, and he protested not a peep.

Broder is way past his prime. To compare Harry Reid to that lying and dissimulating Gonzales shows how off base he is. Just like Gonzales, Broder should resign.

BUSH, MODERN JULIUS CAESAR, WANTS UNLIMITED FUNDING FOR WAR IN IRAQ

Bush is meeting with Democratic leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi today about the supplemental budget request to continue his damned war in Iraq but claims he is not negotiating. I guess this means Bush wants to issue a fiat about war funding to the Democrats. And no dissent or time-tables, please! This guy Bush thinks he is king. He is the modern incarnation of the Roman tyrant Julius Caesar who thought he could take over the Roman republic by force of the Roman army. Similarly Bush thinks he can bypass the input of Congress. That's why Bush gives his speeches only to the army.

Here's a suggestion made by Dick Orenstein, a letter writer to the New York Times yesterday. April 17, 2007.

"No big fuss, just adjust the tax rates up to pay for the troops and their activities. Then let’s see who wants to support the troops! That will bring the cost of the war into everyone’s sight!"

Give Bush all the money he wants, but make it "pay-as-you-go," to be financed by current taxes. Do not add one cent to the budget deficit by spending on this unjust war.