Dan Lipinski being one of them:
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With leadership like that, Iraq should be over in….a few dozen years.
Substantively, the entire deal is a joke. Kirk holds up the magical power point that tells us, well, nothing:
The PowerPoint is designed to give the impression of significant movement to reduce forces, while not doing that. The only pullout dated on the graph is the pullout for next summer which has to happen since we don’t have the troops. The steady decline of troops and the time axis being equally spread out is designed to distort the viewer’s perception of what is going on implying that the further draw down will occur roughly at the same pace while close examination shows there is no time scale on the axis.
If you want to end this war, you have to stop the funding of the war. These two are pushing a plan that only requires the current surge to end and calling it the Iraq Study Group plan that called for a draw down of troops before the surge. Returning to that level of troops does not implement the Iraq Study Group, it ignores it.
This is a blank check and a profile in cowardice. And some bizarre TV.