16 posts tagged “iraq”

--hysterical--and Danny is the family's neocon! : >

Tonight's episode: Special guest star Britney Spears has talking underpants, and the Partridge Family solves the crisis in Iraq!

Hillary tells us all not to vote for her if we don't like her refusal to make a clear statement admitting her mistake in voting for Iraq.

Mrs. Clinton rolled out a new response to those demanding contrition: She said she was willing to lose support from voters rather than make an apology she did not believe in.

“If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” Mrs. Clinton told an audience in Dover, N.H., in a veiled reference to two rivals for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.

This stubborn mule act does not help her at all. I don't know a single person who is excited about her running, and i don't know a single person who thinks she's done a good job as our senator here in NY. I know many women in politics feel they have to overdo it so they don't appear weak, but this is getting Bushlike in its obstinancy and tells us a lot about her willingness to admit mistakes (unwillingness, that is) and her willingness to respond to voter needs and wants and concerns (unwillingness again, that is)

I know she's the pick of the DC Democratic establishment (like Kerry was, and Dukakis and Tsongas, etc) but she didn't get my vote for senate in the primary last time, and she won't get my vote for president unless she changes her tune and actually pledges to listen to us--we are her boss. We are all of their bosses. They have to be reminded i guess. And sitting Senators don't get elected, usually.

And this is very troubling: why does the GOP want Hillary to be the Democratic candidate?

if you want something done right...

Why is Congress so pathetic? Why aren't they listening to the majority of us? Why this non-binding shit? How many more have to die?

from Gorilla Guides

murderous acts to remain unpunished." -- Digby on Feith, lies, war, death -- and no punishment at all.

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This is not the kind of behavior over which to mince words. These are the sorts of actions that treason trials and international war crimes tribunals are for.

There is something terribly corrupt about a country that will permit such unspeakable, murderous acts to remain unpunished. ...

Iraq War Grief Daily Witness Day 390

(graphic pic inside that link, but important to see)

-- he gave it to them good today: Hagel chided his fellow colleagues for being too concerned about the politics of their Iraq positioning. “If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes,” he said. Hagel concluded that all 100 Senators have a responsibility to take a position on escalation. “We owe it to those men and women that we continue to send in that grinder.” Watch it:

How can we expect to change course in Iraq, if a president is given a pass to claim he has never stayed the course in the first place? How can we expect to hold lawmakers accountable if they are never questioned about their efforts to deliberately mislead us? How can we expect the media to be a watchdog if its leading analysts and news framers face no public sanctions when they disrespect the truth or give credence to fringe ideologies?

-- But under present conditions, withdrawal is not an option. American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favour to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

 actually: Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years.

I wonder how many other big employers are doing the same? I bet none.