Disagreement at Iraq War meeting in the Oval Office

[interesteddad]

<p>Talking Points Memo has leaked comments from someone in attendance at the Iraq meeting among House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and President Bush today:</p>

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“Reid talked about a recent conversation he had with a retired general where they talked about the similarities between the current situation and Vietnam,” the source relates. “He talked about how the President and Secretary of Defense [during Vietnam] knew that the war was lost but continued to press on at the cost of thousands of additional lives lost.”</p>

<p>“The analogy to Vietnam appeared to touch a nerve with the President. He appeared a little sensitive to it,” the source continued. “And he clearly didn’t like to hear people in the room say that the war couldn’t be won militarily.”</p>

<p>More: “Reid made it clear to the President that he understood that the President and Vice President after the veto would come after him and Speaker Pelosi with everything they have. Reid said that he and Pelosi would respond just as aggressively. He said he was convinced that they were on the right side of the issue.”

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[latetoschool]

<p>Unfortunate choice of words for a thread title…</p>

[Idealistic32]

<p>I agree. I thought you meant the governor of Oklahoma’s office. I was confused. It’s like the newspaper headline “Grandmother of four shoots hole in one” Lol.</p>

[interesteddad]

<p>Sorry about that. I just assumed that it was general knowledge that the Oval Office was in the White House and that “Shootout at the OK Corral” was a well known movie. My bad.</p>

[razorsharp]

<p>With all the shooting at Va. Tech, I would prefer threads not contain the word “shootout” or similar words unless absolutely necessary.</p>

[interesteddad]

<p>Guys. I got the message. I can’t edit the thread title. But, feel free to keep posting complaints. Sheesh.</p>

<p>Mods: You can change it to “Polite disagreement in Oval Office Meeting”</p>

[latetoschool]

<p>^^ROTFL - Is there perhaps some middle ground between “that which shall not be named”, and “polite disagreement”???</p>

[xiggi]

<p>The thread title is not as offensive as the attempt to elevate a blog to a source of information --especially this kind of National Enquirer garbage. </p>

<p>For the record, here’s an excerpt of the CC rules:</p>

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Links to Forums, Blogs, and Personal Sites. Please do not post links to other discussion forums, blogs, personal sites, or other non-authoritative sources.

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[interesteddad]

<p>Xiggi:</p>

<p>I don’t believe that linking to a site with direct reporting of quotes from an attendee at today’s Presidential meeting would fall under the prohibition.</p>

<p>BTW, the Talking Points Memo site is doing an excellent job tracking the US Attorney brouhaha. For example, it’s the only place I’ve seen reporting that the House Judiciary Committee had a vote scheduled today to offer Monica Goodling immunity…and that the vote was delayed a week at the request of the ranking minority member. They are also the only ones reporting, with copies of the letter, that the White House Counsel’s office is ordering the RNC to turn over e-mails to the White House, not the Congressional overight committee requesting them.</p>

<p>It would be nice if the mainstream media did it’s job instead of serving as background singers for Karl Rove’s hip hop dancing. But, alas…</p>

[WPSON2010]

<p>xiggi, so are you the thought police now???</p>

[interesteddad]

<p>For the record, the Talking Points Memo publisher’s bio:</p>

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Joshua Micah Marshall is the publisher of Talking Points Memo, TPMCafe, and TPMmuckraker.com. He is also columnist for Time.com and the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill. </p>

<p>His articles on politics, culture and foreign affairs have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers such as The American Prospect, The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The New York Times, Salon and Slate. </p>

<p>He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, FOX and MSNBC and is a frequent guest on radio stations across the country. </p>

<p>Marshall graduated from Princeton in 1991 and holds a doctorate in American history from Brown.

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<p>Partisan? Yes. But, no less “authoritative” than any other media columnist.</p>

[Collegemom]

<p>Moderator note: I changed the title of the thread because I was frankly alarmed when I first saw the thread and thought it was about something else. Given the news this week, I’m likely not the only one who thought there was a shooting at the oval office when seeing the title. Carry on…</p>

[interesteddad]

<p>Thank you. </p>

<p>In retrospect, I probably should have made a reference to Antartica as I imagine the meeting room was probably pretty chilly when Reid and Pelosi told Bush he was mired in “another Vietnam”. I don’t imagine that Bush hears that kind of talk from from Cheney.</p>