Bill Frist says Carl Levin wants to "cut and run" from Bush's War

GOP Senator Bill Frist said Democratic Senator Carl Levin's proposal to plan a pullout from Bush's War on Iraq is a "cut and run" strategery.

Dr. Frist has a better plan, Stand and Bleed, which sounds like another video diagnosis to me.

If Bill Frist was busy legislating our morality back in Vietnam days, we'd STILL be standing and bleeding in East Asia, too, I'd say.
Of course our chemistry would have improved over thirty years. Napalming Vietnamese children could be improved with our new and improved white phosphorus.
Our expert poisoning of the land (and the land's inhabitants) with Agent Orange could be upgraded to the ubiquitous and corporate friendly Round-up (field tested on the citizens of Central America).
And finally, we could have dropped so many tons of depleted uranium on that country that we wouldn't even need to consider storing the evil sh*t in Yucca Mountain.

When is the proper time to quit beating a victim, Mr. Frist?

Let's see what John Murtha said about Bill Frist's and later Karl Rove's comments:

"He's, he's in New Hampshire. He's making a political speech. He's sitting in his air conditioned office with his big, fat backside, saying, "Stay the course." That's not a plan. I mean, this guy--I don't know what his military experience is, but that's a political statement. This is a policy difference between me and the White House. I disagree completely with what he's saying.

"Now, let's, let's--give me, give you an example. When we went to Beirut, I, I said to President Reagan, "Get out." Now, the other day we were doing a debate, and they said, "Well, Beirut was a different situation. We cut and run." We didn't cut and run. President Reagan made the decision to change direction because he knew he couldn't win it. Even in Somalia, President Clinton made the decision, "We have to, we have to change direction. Even with tax cuts. When we had a tax cut under Reagan, we then had a tax increase because he had to change direction.

"We need to change direction. We can't win a war like this.

"This guy's sitting back there criticizing--political criticism, getting paid by the public taxpayer, and he's saying to us, "We're, we're winning this war, and they're running." We got to change direction, that's what we have to do. You can't, you can't sit there in the air conditioned office and tell these troops they're carrying 70 pounds on their back inside these armored vessels and hit with IEDs every day, seeing their friends blown up, their buddies blown up, and he says "stay the course." Yeah, it's easy to say that from Washington, D.C."

and...

"We're spending $8 billion dollars a month, $300 million dollars a day. And to give you some perspective of what that means, Gates said, "I'm going to quit the corporation, or I'm going to--less time with the corporation." Well, you weigh $30 billion dollars. That's four months of the cost of this war. This port security, if you want to spend more money, it'd would take 47 years the way we're spending it. Education, the No Child Left Behind, a couple months of the war would pay for that. Whose going to, whose going to pay for this down the road? Our children and grandchildren are paying for this war. And then you have the, the, the emotional strain, the, the, the people who are being hurt.

"On the floor the other day, you may have heard this, one fellow says, "We're fighting this war." We're not fighting this war. One percent of the American people, these young men and women are fighting this war, with heavy packs, with 70 pounds of equipment, with helmets on in 130 degrees. That's who's fighting this war. And they say "stay the course." There's no plan. You open up this plan for victory, there's no plan there. It's just "stay the course." That doesn't solve any problem...It's worse today than it was six months ago when I spoke out initially."

and...
" "There's less than 1,000 al Qaeda in Iraq but we're caught in this civil war between 100,000 Shias and 20,000 Sunnis fighting with each other.

"You know who wants us to stay in Iraq right now?" Murtha said. "Al Qaeda wants us there because it recruits people for them. China wants us there. North Korea wants us there. Russia wants us there. Stay and we'll pay, not only pay in dollars. . . . I figure it took us through the Reagan administration to pay for the Vietnam War."