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Shays Sets a Timeline for a Timeline, and Slams Rumsfeld
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, is breaking with his party to urge withdrawal from Iraq. Sort of. Shays, who is facing a tough electoral challenge from anti-war Democrat Diane Farrell, is expected to produce a timeline for withdrawal after holding a series of hearings next month. But Shays seems to think the main problem in Iraq is flaccid "political will on the part of Iraqis." The congressman believes establishing a timeline would firm up the Iraqis' will, but waffles when it comes to when the troops would actually be withdrawn. "It may be a timeline the American people don't want to hear," he said. "It may not be something that brings them [the troops] out quickly."
But Shays didn't mince words in his criticism of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. As Mother Jones Investigative Correspondent James Ridgeway reports in the current issue, Shays subpoenaed Rumsfeld in his committee's investigation of the Abu Ghraib abuses. Yesterday, Shays said Rumsfeld has made "huge mistakes" in Iraq, adding, "I haven't had faith in the secretary in a long time."
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This was,to say expected, and will continue from a lot more gop candidates in their efforts to distance themselves from GWB.
Posted by: lylepink on 08/25/06 at 3:55 PM
Shay's is doing this in order to get reelected and as soon as the election is over he will go right back to being a blind, lock step, knee jerk Republican who cares only for his political part and himself and not at all for America or the voters who put him in office.
It's just too bad that those voters do not see this for what it is. So the joke is on them.
I can only hope that they will wake up.
Posted by: bob t on 08/27/06 at 12:06 PM
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Shays is scampering to get elected. To slam Rumsfeld is an easy alibi to construct. But he, like Bush and the GOP, wants to keep one foot in and one foot out of the Iraq war. Justifications have become old and threadbare. It is not a joyous time, as the Long War President recently reminded us. My psyche has ached from day one of this illegal war.
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