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Irony alert: Democrats demand ‘straight talk’ on Iraq
So do the voters who thought they were getting
straight talk about Iraq and other issues in 2006 from Congressional Democrats,
not weak whining about President Bush that
would be swatted out of the lane by anybody taller than 5-2.
“The American people are still waiting to hear the straight talk we deserve,” Sen. Robert Menendez said in the Democrats’ weekly radio address. “Instead of making more sweeping claims of victory, as he did this week, it's time for the president to face the reality of the situation we're in.”
Why don’t YOU tell the American public the truth, Sen. Menendez?
Why don’t you bluntly tell them:
• That we cannot establish a democracy in Iraq, even if we had more troops than we do there now?
• That you are still afraid of being labeled “defeatist”?
• That Afghanistan, as well as Iraq, is probably “lost”?
• That al-Qaeda doesn’t hate us because we drink, let women vote, etc., but because we write blank checks to Israel and have troops occupying Arabia?
I could list more, but that’s enough for starters.
Comments (1)
That's because they cannot get enough votes and because they are afraid of the consequences if they did. This country moved to the right in the last couple of decades, not when Bush II becamse president.
This only reinforces the phony of the "working majority" in my view.
Political party is an faction based on ideology. As such, it is inherently partisan because it fights to gain power and implement things based on that ideology.
The American political system is designed to give voices to opposing forces and not to give any of these voices an overriding power over the other.
March 23, 2008 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
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