What I find really sad about the 'stay the course' flip-flop is that it was planned before August. Tony Snow was explicit when he said that Bush stopped using that expression in August. Which means that this flip/flop has been planned, probably as the 'October Surprise' since at least July or even before. How many soldiers died while Rove was playing a political waiting game with the war goals?
Even more sad, I suppose, is that the October Surprise fell even flatter than the renaming of the "war on terror" to the "fight against global extremism" change that Cheney tried a couple of years ago. When will we actually get some planning? When will Bush start to listen to reality and make the types of changes required to either win this thing, which is unlikely, or get the hell out?
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