Ellen Tauscher Criticizes Brian Baird on 'Green Zone Fog'

by: Matt Stoller

Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 17:44

Look I know Brian Baird, he's a friend of mine.  And I'm on the Armed Services Committee and I've been to Iraq, this is my fourth trip, my sixth trip to the region.  And I will tell you that when you get in the Green Zone, there is a physiological phenomenon I think called Green Zone fog.  And there is such a, sense of winning.  They will show you, it's, uh, death by powerpoint.  Chart after chart after chart after chart where they have sliced like carpaccio the results of what's going on and it's always that their argument is winning.  And if you press, after the third of fourth time, what about this, this and this, you start to peel the onion back and see what we all know, that the surge is not sustainable.

UPDATE:  I just got off the phone with Ciaran Clayton, Brian Baird's press secretary.  I asked her if he's going to support the $50B supplemental request, and she said 'he probably will'.