More dressing and gravy with that crow?

Don Surber:

“If it works — and after all, stranger things have happened — then I’ll eat some crow.” — Kevin Drum, 23 December 2006.

Anyone have a good recipe for crow?

A year ago, Michael Gordon and David Sanger wrote for the New York Times of President Bush getting reluctant support from the Pentagon:

The American military command in Iraq is now willing to back a temporary increase in American troops in Baghdad as part of a broader Iraqi and United States effort to stem the slide toward chaos, senior American officials said Saturday.

And so it began. Gen. David Petraeus was not mentioned in that first story. But the details were there:

“They are open to the possibility of some increase in force,” a senior Defense Department official said. “They are supportive of taking steps to support the Iraqis in their plan, including the possible modest augmentation in U.S. combat forces.”

“Nobody has decided anything yet and they have not made a formal recommendation,” the official continued. “They are open to the idea of such an option and are weighing how best to execute it and what the traffic will bear with the Iraqis.”

The possible increase in troops, officials said, ranges from fewer than 10,000 to as many as 30,000.

Republicans had lost the election. President Bush changed course. The lefty blogs were not satisfied.

The plan was dismissed out of hand by Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo....

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This is just the beginning of what the left and their candidates will be facing in the coming campaign. When the Republicans break away from the screwy debate moderators and force the Democrats to face their rhetoric on the surge and their votes for defeat in the past year they are going to need heaping helping sof gravy to swallow all the crow.