Summer Salami Maneuver
Recommended reading: Harold Meyerson's op-ed, "Dying for a nation that's not," in the Sacramento Bee foreshadows an incremental approach to cutting Bush's war options.
Of all the absurdities attending our unending war in Iraq, the greatest is this: We are fighting to defend that which is not there.
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Students, let's talk about it at Wednesday's seminar.
More soon on Impeachment Watch for June,
Tish
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June 4, 2007 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read this the other day and all I could think was, "Well, then why the hell are we over there? ... Oh. Yeh. Oil."
Meyerson's piece did what I would call "Rhetorical House Cleaning" -- he swept up all the crap this administration and its "GOP stable boys" have scattered around the House (and Senate) floors.
Debra Morgan Pardee
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
-- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
June 4, 2007 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting article, but Meyerson must be writing from the safety of his home. I'm guessing that he has no relatives over in Iraq (as Cindy Sheehan said "No skin in the game"), as I did. The Democrats can keep incrementally doing things for many years while the deathcount - American and Iraqi - goes up. If we get to 58,000 Americans and two to three million Iraqis will people stop celebrating about how brilliant the Democratic strategy is?
The Democrats have the votes right now to end the war. Just keep using their majority to pass funding with conditions Bush won't accept. Bush keeps vetoing - troops are withdrawn. Bush intends to keep American troops in Iraq forever because of oil- that's why the permanent bases and the gigantic embassy. The Democrats need to stop finding excuses to fund this stuff - now.
Tom
June 5, 2007 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink