4 months since “Mission Accomplished” - How are we doing?
Has anything really changed since I wrote this post?
I guess in really big news the Iraqi PM says Iraq is capable of defending itself. Might want to watch this youtube clip. I guess, unfortunately what is old is new again.
It has been 120 days since the 4 year anniversary of “Mission accomplished”.
March 16, 2007 the number was 3203
July 16, 2007 the number is 3615
That is 412 fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters who are gone as time marches on towards the inevitable withdrawal.
Senators Clinton and Schumer, Congresswoman Slaughter, Congressmen Kuhl, Reynolds, and Walsh where will we be 30 days from today?
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In the beginning, we had all the people of the Bush administration implying that Iraq was responsible for 9/11. Then we had “mission accomplished.” Now we have the “Surge”.
Each one of these things was meant to confuse people. What the “surge” does is it tries to be the reset bottom for the war. All the talk now is about what’s happened since the surge began as if we are not ever supposed to think about this fiasco in its entirety.
People are so worried that that the fighting and the dying of soldiers will be in vain if we don’t continue the war to victory, but the surge implies that the adminstration wasn’t too serious about the war until the surge began. That means to me that those who died before the surge didn’t really count.
For a Party that is big on consequences for other people the Republican party doesn’t seem to have any for themselves.
Kuhl, Walsh, Reynolds need to be ashamed of themselves for continuing to enable this war.
Kuhl, Walsh and Reynolds need to be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating this administration’s bullshit, which enables them to perpetuate this war and Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic Congress need to be ashamed of themselves for NOT SCREAMING for this administration’s impeachment. Our Democracy and it’s constitution are being trampled and anyone who thinks that we will have a presidential election in November of 2008 when Bush can declare, at his whim, a national emergency and become dictator while he flips off the American people and their constitution, is not paying attention.
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