CHANNEL FLIPPER - General Halftrack Cooks His First Political Waffle
Tommy Franks appeared on Fox Channel 28 here in Lawton Sunday. He was on one of Fox's talk shows. The host was tossing softball questions and Tommy was doing his best to respond. One of the questions had to do with the Iraq war and they way it has turned out. Tommy gave a bifurcated answer which I think we will see a lot of in the next election cycle. He reaffirmed his support for the war saying that "if we didn't fight them over there, we would have to fight them over here". However, he said the post combat phase had been handled badly. He said that the high unemployment rate and poor training of security forces were the reasons that the effort was failing.
It looks like the coming Republican Strategy is: Praise the reason and the war, praise the combat phase, criticize the the recovery plan.
