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[somedaybitch]

cowards.

and this is why.

And what we see, what astonishes me, I mean, I had a kind of out of body experience reading the Washington Post today, because it was like going through some sort of hallucination. I’ve never seen war coverage like it, where one party has in fact decided to take what it calls the slow bleed strategy, it’s quite openly telling people it doesn’t want to have the courage of its convictions and defund the war, it wants to deny the President the possibility of victory, while ensuring that it doesn’t get stuck with any blame for defeat, and this is completely contemptible.

along with the best, and ironically appropriate, analogy i've ever heard to discuss the current political situation:

...…it’s like the McGuffin in a Hitchcock movie, it’s merely the pretext for a lot of domestic political positioning. It’s not. It’s a real country, and it’s a real war, and it ought to be discussed in those terms.

emphases mine

Comments

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

amen... i'll be calling my reps office in the morning on the way to work.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

how stoked was your mom to see Sadr running back to Iran?

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

very! although she's kinda pissed that people are just now hearing that Iran has been supplying both sides with weapons. She hates the fact that people have their heads up their asses.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

yeaaaaah. you're mom should be the poster child for assimilation. she is arguably THE most American individual i've ever met.

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

she couldn't be prouder to be an american... except on election days when things are going the way she wants them to go.. heh!

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

I'm with Rudy on this... if you as a congressperson think the war is bad new, then do what you need to do to stop it. I can respect that, even though I think it's wrong. But don't hedge your bets, you can't have it both ways. They are all looking to the next elections and their own sorry carcasses, and not to the American people. Those GI's are American People too, and these congresional delegations represent them as well...

"you gotta stand for somethin' or you're gonna fall for anything."

I think the Dem leadership of congress is being very foolish, and shortsighted. They are hoping that the war will be over for ill before 2008 so they can claim some kind of victory... and if not that they can say they supported the troops. They thought their approval rating was low before. They should know that contempt is worse than dislike... and a lot of people will have contempt for them. I certainly will...

Rudy on L.King

>>>That’s what you guys do, you make comments. We pay them to make decisions, not just to make comments.<<< guess they are lacking intestinal fortitude...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i'm stunned that they are refusing to see what they are actually saying, and doing to the country.

they've been harping about it being another Vietnam for an age now. if they do this, and we leave, it very much will be...and the collateral damage will be catastrophic.

re Rudy, i also like that he singled out Murtha as having the guts to be against the war the entire time.

and i saw that King interview. i thought it was brilliant.