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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Petraeus' Pentagon skeptics

MoveOn members aren't the only ones challenging Petraeus' "stay the course" message. Plus: I'm on MSNBC's "Live With Dan Abrams" tonight.
Joan Walsh

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  • Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:18 PM

    I'm giving MoveOn a break

    Well, when Jerry Falwell called Ellen DeGeneres "Ellen Degenerate," *that* was immature schoolyard stuff. But when someone in a position of tremendous power, which he threatens to use in a dubious manner, has a name that's an unavoidably close rhyme to a phrase all too suggestive of what he's about to do, I can't take objection to someone pointing out the coincidence. I have often wished that the Democrats in congress had a tenth of MoveOn's cojones.

    —Hank Scorpio Read Hank Scorpio 's other letters

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