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March 19, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
CapitolLink: Candidates' Quarters
Ed Morrissey has opened his pages at Captain's Quarters to all 2008 presidential candidates willing to post entries at the conservative site, and Rep. Duncan Hunter became the first to accept the offer today.
The California Republican, fresh back from a trip to Iraq, chose the strategy for war in Iraq as his topic. He endorsed the plan by President Bush to send 21,000 more U.S. troops to the country.
"You can call it a surge, you can call it an escalation, you can call it whatever you want," Hunter wrote, "but what the president is doing is sending reinforcements to Iraq to help mentor and train the Iraqi troops, secure the country, and complete the mission." He also touted his own recommendations to Bush for rotating troops home.
That prompted a scolding from one reader, who called Hunter's proposal "another ridiculous example of a congressional armchair general, of which there are legions. It's not his job to presume to advise our commander-in-chief on military field strategy and tactics; it's his job to legislate."
Posted by Danny | 10:07 AM
