Democratic Senator Lieberman Proves My Point

This is a follow-up to the post "There Is No Exit Strategy."

Today, Bush released his National Strategy for Victory In Iraq. The government says it is a follow-up to objectives set forth in 2003, but I couldn't find any such document on their website. Therefore, I think it is really a follow-up to the watershed National Security Strategy of the United States released September 20th, 2002. This is just an excerpt of the mind-numbing speech he gave earlier this morning:

'Pulling our troops out before they've achieved their purpose is not a plan for victory. As Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman said recently, "Setting an artificial timetable would discourage our troops because it seems to be heading for the door. It will encourage the terrorists. It will confuse the Iraqi people."

'Senator Lieberman is right: Setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would send a message across the world that America is weak and an unreliable ally.'

Nothing helps you more as a war-monger than to know you have bi-partisan support. This was my point in "There Is No Exit Strategy." For pete's sake, it would be nice to actually have an opposition party in the US.

As for the updated, new and improved National Security document: I wonder how long the majority parts of this thing have been sitting around. The last one had been hanging out in binders belonging to Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz for a little over a decade.