Letters to the Editor
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imagine...
maybe I'm way behind the curve here...but what are the chances that most democrats in the House and Senate voted for the AUMF out of a completely cynical conviction that if Bush didn't invade Iraq they'd look good on the slopes, and if he did, he's screw it up so bad that he'd get pasted in 2004? And they'd still look good on the slopes?
If that's what happened--and it seems all too plausible--the dems should have fought harder to win in Ohio in 2004.
They probably thought that the GOP couldn't possibly weasle out of the Iraq disaster. And they must have made the elementary error of underestimating the gullibility of the American Voter.
Because nothing else really explains such a stupid-ass vote. Not even that cooked intelligence (easily shown to be the fakery it was, even then).. Nothing other than misplaced political cynicism explains giving that much power to a man every one of the dems on capitol hill had to have known was a useless waterhead.
And that's not hindsight. That was known, AT THE TIME.
Yeesh..makes the current debate all the more contemptible.
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platitudes, platitudes, platitudes
Debate is perpetually stalled by such banal statements that most legislators forget the provisions of the bill under discussion; or rather, the provisions of the bill they did not read in the first place.
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Tomorrow At High Noon!
The Running of the Republicans! A new fiesta celebrating our Neo-Cons!
The White House doors will open... Fierce Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, and the rest of the charged-up right-wing whackos will charge out, with their horns lowered, jaws snapping, snorting, stamping, stampedeing.
A few courageous Democrats will scatter before them, and run like hell to the safety of the Capitol. Some of them will be stomped under along the way.
Then, there in the Senate Chamber, we may see a bullfight. I hope we will see it. But maybe the bulls will snort and prance, while our champion Democrats stay in the cloakroom and whine.
Will anybody come out, and kill these stupid bulls?
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Oh, the Shame of it All!
Our Congressfolk stench the hallowed halls of our government with embarassing Iraq platitudes every few weeks, but with the authorization bill on the block, they're reaching a fever pitch.
I think it was Kit Bond who said, in effect, that America must continue shoveling 12 billion dollars per month down the Iraqhole because Osama Bin Laden said that if we left, we'd be girlymen.
Just -- Brilliant!
Good thing he didn't grow up in the neighborhood I did with a whine like that, or his face would be out of kilter.
For heaven's sake, it's enough to make you wannna Van Winkle yerself to sleep until this whole mess is over, except, you'd really have to go for the full 20 years before our treasury, if not our sons, daughters neices & nephews stop bleeding...
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Blah, blah, blah...
...shut up and do something, or just shut up.
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kickstarts...
Don't go there, dude.
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Hey, here's an idea...
...where's Bin Laden?
Keep talkin shit congress.
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Slow down folks
There's a lot of despair here about the (im)possibility of the Congress acting quickly to end the fiasco in Iraq. Congresses are supposed to act slowly; that's how they are set up. We've seen what happens when they act quickly in the Patriot Act (sic) and the authorization for Bush to go to war. Let's hope we don't get any more quick action from the Congress.
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These are the highlights?
Sounds like banter you could pick-up at McCarthy's Pub on a slow wednesday evening. At least there one could munch on a pickled egg and quaff a cold Bass Ale or two. These are the bozos in charge. This is the leaderships of our country? Not one of them has an friggin idea of how to get out of a situation they lied to get us into. Shame on them.
Stating the obvious about what a majority of americans already know sends shivers down my unimpressed spine. Spine. Something these clowns don't own. Pass the baloney...
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Yeah, slow down folks...
...you wouldn't want to save any pawn soldiers from being melted in the plume of an IED in the middle of a bullshit invasion and occupation during a refereeing session of a civil war.
Congress needs to move MORE slowly maybe?
Maybe we can get Bush impeached AFTER he orders congress into prison camps.
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Highlights From The Iraq Debate.
What a sad and sorry state of affairs.
Talk about going round in circles, when I read this, it immediately came to mind, the U.S. is now in exactly the same position it was in when they finally realised Theu was no longer going to abide by their wishes in Vietnam.
History tells us what happened to him as a direct result, and I wonder whether history will repeat it'self for Maliki.
The majority of people in power in the Whitehouse are old enough to clearly remember the events in Vietnam, though sad to say, it's also very clear indeed, they learnt absolutely nothing from those lessons.
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There appears to be one (1) Republican who has finally figured out Bush's war.
Republican Senator Gordon Smith said in a speech given last December:
"I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal."
Yesterday, Smith was interviewed by Fox News and given a chance to back off his earlier remarks. He replied:
"If I could do anything over, I would – in that speech I gave – I would replace the word 'criminal' with the word 'insane.'"
Actually, Gordon, why not split the difference and make it criminally insane and then we'll all be happy.