The American Mind

“Moderate Republican Rep. Christopher Shays wants a timetable for pulling out of Iraq. ”

Welp. Put him on the “Cut and Run” column.

For anyone who thinks that a TIMETABLE doesn’t mean Cut and Run, please explain what happens when we reach the Timetable’s deadline and the mission is not accomplished yet?

Less is More

This is absolutely ridiculous. (h/t Sean Hackbarth)

Like Sean said, it would only be pushing costs from high school to college.

Chicago mayor suggest a 5th year of high school i suggest that the windy cities windy mayor go back to jounior high and learn his constitution that idiot dont know what it means

Personally i don’t see why a timetable can’t be adjusted to compensate for current events, but whatever, i imagine that’s hard to grasp to those who see the world in black and white.

That “5th year of high school” idea is patently asinine. Completely disregarding the cost issue (and yeah, just passing the cost to the high schools–Wtf? Dumb), there are *tons* of college freshmen who are complete humptards and probably DO need a 5th year of high school to get them to where they should be in their first year of college, but that doesn’t mean we should give it to ‘em.

Besides, if i remember my mental state properly at the end of my high school career, a 5th year would have just been spent by me slacking off and wondering why the frack i wasn’t out of Hillbert yet.

“Personally i don’t see why a timetable can’t be adjusted to compensate for current events, but whatever, i imagine that’s hard to grasp to those who see the world in black and white.”

If one is constantly “Adjusting” a timetable, it defeats the entire purpose of bellyaching over wanting one.

Virtually all “critics” (maybe, except you) are not talking about a series of timetables.

Just take a look at the language (if you have Lexis Nexus Access) on the two bills that were voted down in Senate.

Please explain to me what the difference between “Adjusting a timetable based on the events on ground” to what President Bush is already doing?

Is it so ridiculously important that we have to mark calendar dates as special dates regardless if they end up meaning anything?

My first semister of college felt a lot like my senior year of high school. That’s what I thought of my first calculus class which was just a rehash of all the stuff I learned in high school.

“For anyone who thinks that a TIMETABLE doesn’t mean Cut and Run, please explain what happens when we reach the Timetable’s deadline and the mission is not accomplished yet?”

We fire the people in charge and give the new people a new timetable - and tell them what happened to the old people.

How does that sound? Seems like a compromise to me. A timetable doesn’t mean abandoning the Iraqi people, it means cracking heads to get things done. You shouldn’t have to tell a conservative what most people do when they’re given a task but not given a deadline to complete it.

Interesting point Chet.

Chet,

You are a complete moron.

The business behind a TIMETABLE has nothing to do with “deadlines.”

The military in Iraq consists of a number of military missions each having their own Deadline.

Placing a TIMETABLE does nothing to expedite any of the mission deadlines, nor can it be used to FIRE anyone.

Instead a TIMETABLE ends up being a useless bunch of bull malarky, because everyone already knows that the entire mission consists of smaller missions and the real “Deadline” is on the completion of each smaller mission…

You don’t pull out the troops based on a GIVEN DATE anyhow for risk announcing to the Terrorists when they can start attacking again.

Moron!

“You don’t pull out the troops based on a GIVEN DATE anyhow for risk announcing to the Terrorists when they can start attacking again.”

This doesn’t make any sense to me. If we meet the deadlines for accomplishing what we need to do to leave, what terrorists are still alive to wait?

The Administration is dragging their feet on this. They need a kick in the ass. Setting deadlines are how that’s done.

Honestly I think people should just set their own deadline. Pick a date; if the troops aren’t home by then, you know who’s fault it is.