The King of Pointland

The Broken Clock

Happy 2008! Can you believe it was only one year ago today that the Earth was at the same point in its orbit around the Sun? Me neither.

So what do you know, William Safire was almost correct. For, on this day in King of Pointland history:

MR. RUSSERT: Yeah. Here's the Safire office pool, and we're all going to take it.

"The level of American troops in Iraq at year's end"--that's at 2007, end of this, next year, 2007, A: over 100,000, down from 160; under 100,000 from today's unsurged 140; under 80, with announced timetable for downsizing in '08 to 40 to secure Iraqi Kurdistan."

Mr. Safire, you picked A, over 100,000.

MR. SAFIRE: I think what we'll have is surging, the surge will be there. And the Democrats will go along with the surge, provided that it can be shown to have a mission in mind, and has some support from the Iraqis. Even Hillary Clinton, when she said, "I'm against the surge unless it has some other mission in mind."

According to the AP, there are now about 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Still, pretty close.

Huckabee and Obama were on MTP last Sunday. Not sure when Safire will be back. Stupid elections.

Posted by cradle at January 2, 2008 09:43 PM