{"id":10986,"date":"2007-05-01T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/01\/timetables.html"},"modified":"2007-05-01T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T03:08:00","slug":"timetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/timetables.html","title":{"rendered":"Timetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feel free to chortle over some no-nothing backwater state Governor stomping his foot and demanding the President set clear exit strategy conditions and a timetable for the troops to come home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Victory means exit strategy, and it\u2019s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is. … I think it\u2019s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Except, of course, in this case the Governor was one George W. Bush of Texas, and the President was Bill Clinton and the troops were in Kosovo.  Fast forward from 1999, and the commander-in-chiefly shoe is on the other foot.<\/p>\n

Now, to be fair, (a) It has been sixteen years, and it is to be hoped that Bush would have learned something in the interim, and (b) It’s a lot different sitting in the White House than in the Texas statehouse.  And, truth be told, I think a legislated timetable is actually a horrible <\/em>idea, except that it seems to be the only way to get Bush to take any action.  Bush has done his typically inept job at actually, y’know, persuading the American people about much of anything about it (except to repeat the same empty platitudes and stomp his foot and say “I will not!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Still, all that having been said, the quotes from the last presidential election are worth a sad chuckle or two.<\/p>\n

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Feel free to chortle over some no-nothing backwater state Governor stomping his foot and demanding the President set clear exit strategy conditions and a timetable for the troops to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5280,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/a_strategy.html","url_meta":{"origin":10986,"position":0},"title":"A strategy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Apr-04 9:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"John Kerry has written a strategy for Iraq, to address critics who say he's been stronger on the second-guessing than the actual leadership thang. 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