IRAQ INCOHERENCE

I suppose this is just a special case of Conservative Incoherence by which I mean the contradictory nature of wingnut positions. For example, Lieberman complained about the partisanship of the Democrats yet gladly attended one of Hannity's Freedom Concerts which included partisan freakshows like Ann Coulter and Mark Levin. Fredo made another of these contradictory statements in his loathsome speech, as Fred Kaplan points out:

His showcase example of success was the recent alliance between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents to join forces against jihadist terrorists in Anbar province (an alliance, by the way, that was formed before the surge). Yet even so, the president said in tonight's speech, "In Anbar, the enemy remains active and deadly." Again, under the president's own assumptions, what's the substantive case for letting any troops leave?

And no major speech by Fredo would be complete without factual shortcomings:

Oddly, he thanked "the 36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq." At the peak of the "coalition," back in the fall of 2004, only 31 countries besides the United States had any troops in Iraq. They amounted to 24,000—fewer than one-fifth of America's numbers—and one-third of those were contributed by Britain. Now, according to the most recent official report (dated Aug. 30, 2007), just 25 countries have troops there; they number fewer than 12,000 (an average of fewer than 500 per nation), and more and more, including Britain, are leaving every month.