What does Congressman Rob Bishop have in common with this Crowd?
Can you guess?
What does Congressman Rob Bishop have in common with this crowd?:
They both have large frickin’ BALLS!
I wrote to Congressman Bishop (R-Utah) weeks back to express my concern about the ‘troop surge,’ an idea about as handy as a downhill stairmaster (but probably more harmful).
He replied back with a well written two page letter defending the idea of a troop surge, and re-gurgitating GW Bush’s talking points like a reversible garbage disposal.
Not a big surprise from the guy that (along with Orrin Hatch) was surely a volume buyer of Bush Action figures.
But he actually had the BALLS to imply that the surge idea was recommended by the Iraq Study Group!.
Is Bishop trying to “out-hatch” Senator Orrin Hatch?
Somehow I recalled the surge idea being quite a turnaround from the recommendations of James Baker’s group.
According to their report:
“Sustained increases in US troop levels would not solve the fundamental cause of violence in Iraq, which is the absence of national reconciliation. A senior American general told us that adding US troops might temporarily help limit violence in a highly localized area. However, past experience indicates that the violence would simply rekindle as soon as US forces are moved to another area. As another American general told us, if the iraqi government does not make progress, ‘all the troops in the world will not provide security.’ Meanwhile, America’s military capacity is stretched thin; We do not have the troops or equipment to make a substantial, sustained increase in our troop presence.”
Already our military is feeling the weight of the surge. This week’s Time magazine offers a sad cover story, “America’s Broken-Down Army,” which describes the effect of yet another failed Bush policy on the young men and women of our military:
“Bush warned that if Democrats in Congress did not pass a bill to fund the war on his terms, ‘the price of that failure will be paid by our troops and their loved ones.’ But they are already paying a price for decisions he has made, and the larger costs are likely to be borne for at least a generation.”