Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Marketing Plan for Iraq

The President was talking about his "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" again today. By now, you know that the strategy was not drawn up by a general -- but by a pollster. Critics are zeroing in on the idea that the plan isn't designed to win any war, but to market the war successfully to voters.

Tim Grieve, writing at Salon sums up the President's strategy as a series of catch-phrases:

"Progress" is being made. It would be a mistake to "cut and run." The "lessons of September 11th" are ones we cannot forget.

That's not so much a plan as a series of slogans, a collection of goals and hopes that may or may not be realized at a human cost that cannot yet be known.
The President's strategy is beginning to look more like the marketing plan for New Coke. (Salon)

2 comments:

OTTMANN said...

While democrat's are whining and denying facts, and the success of the president's plan, especially by Howeird Dean, the rest of the nation realizes how un-American they TRULY are. Iraq's economic success


On Sept. 11, 2001, "our nation woke to another attack. In just 102 minutes, more Americans were killed than we lost in Pearl Harbor." A fact liberals can't stand as they stay stuck in the past!

The closer the elections come, the more desperate Democrats become. And they make it very obvious!

Why don't Dems get the hell out of here and move to freakin' France with their like-minded cowards?

Howie Dean shoud be hanged for treason alongside Kerry, Pelosi, Durbin, Reid and Murtha!

The Creative Conservative

Anonymous said...

What does September 11th have to do with Iraq?

We were attacked by al Qaeda -- and we went to war with Iraq.

That's like declaring war on Brazil after Pearl Harbor.