Bill O’Reilly made a promise before we launched the invasion of Iraq (emphasis mine).
Right before U.S. forces invaded Iraq, O’Reilly made a bold promise on ABC about Iraq’s WMDs: “If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?”
Last week, thanks to persistent needling from ABC host Charlie Gibson, O’Reilly mustered a half-hearted apology: “Well, my analysis was wrong and I’m sorry.. I was wrong. I’m not pleased about it at all.” As to the promise to “never trust the Bush administration again,” he was considerably less forceful: “I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time,” he explained, before blaming CIA chief George Tenet for Bush’s troubles.
This is what O’Reilly has to say today:
…if there is a possibility of stabilizing things in Iraq, and there is, my stated opinion is to support one last attempt to do that.
Therefore, Harry Reid is wrong to force a timetable and try to cut funding at this moment. He and Speaker Pelosi are putting American troops in a very bad position. The soldiers and marines fighting in Iraq know what’s going on in Washington and it affects them.
This Harry Reid is an interesting character. We’ve tried to for years to get him on “The Factor”. He will not step up. He used to be a moderate Democrat, but has moved sharply to the left. He and Speaker Pelosi are now soul mates.
Be that as it may, if the Democrats make things harder for American troops, that will damage their chances in 2008. The fair solution is to allow President Bush one last chance to stabilize Iraq with the money he needs to do it. If the president fails, he’ll go down in history alongside Warren Harding and James Buchanan.
If Mr. Bush succeeds, America and the world will be far better off. Either way, our troops need every resource the country can give them.
And that’s “The Memo.”
Even if you could support our excellent Asian adventures, provided they were executed a little better than the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars, you’d still have to have some level of trust that the administration you empower to take on the excellent adventures has a base-line level of competency and a plan. But, as O’Reilly should freely admit, there is no basis for trusting this administration. Give them $121 billion more, with no strings attached? You must be crazy.
And this guy has the highest rated cable show on television?
Another cheap-ass rhetorical Curly-Shuffle by the Master Of All Buttholes. There is, of course, always “a possibility” of almost anything, anywhere, anytime. Just like the habitual gambler, you’re always just one pull of lever, one roll of the dice or one spin of the wheel away from that magical, elusive win. The only problem with people like O’Reilly is that they are “playing with someone elses” chips. And those chips are the lives of innocent Americans and Iraqis.
These people are addicted to war, death, military domination and American hegemony. There will never truly be that “one last attempt” by the likes of Bill-O. There’s always another reason conjured up for that “one last pull” of the lever.
As we all know, the polls now show that in O’Reilly’s world the majority of the country is “sharply left”. Boy that must keep him awake at night!
the only thing the American troops are “stabalizing” is the current civil war in Iraq.
covering his ass more likely.
or maybe he got an advance copy of Tenet’s new book At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA…wherein he is rumoured to dish the dirt…
perhaps billy boy is engaging in a wee bit of pre-emptive, pre-release spin?
If Bush succeeds? Peace through war? Not likely.
I think the post below sums up why the Democrats shoulde de-fund the Iraq War:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20070401
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
And this guy has the highest rated cable show on television?
Bill O’Reilly is a bit of a bully and bullying and “fighting” is good entertainment. People haven’t changed since the Roman era and their gladiator fights, yes, even before that. Old habits never die.