Posted on 06/23/2005 9:46:46 PM PDT by quidnunc
Democratic Senator Richard Durbin's now-historic comment likening U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo to the Nazis, Soviet gulags, Pol Pot "or others" was not the worst thing said in recent days about the administration's Iraq policies. All this proved was that Sen. Durbin was looking out the window in the fifth grade when the nuns taught analogies. A similarly tossed-off comment by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, generally regarded as a serious person, was more troubling.
After saying "there is rising concern that everything [my emphasis] seems to be going the wrong way" on Iraq, Sen. Feinstein demanded "regular progress reports" from the President and explained why: "It's his war."
His war? I thought it was our war. Welcome to the Vietnamization of the Iraq war. A Vietnamized Iraq war means that whatever may be going on in the infant political life of Iraq, the place has become fair grist for the grinding stones of America's domestic politics.
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If it didn't hurt the environment I would propose that all cities, all states everywhere start dumping all their trash 50 miles out to sea and create a large new island of trash. The perfect place to expel these dem wackos so they could live the life they want. "joking" But oh how I wish!
How much money did her husband make off President Bush's war?
Let them crow. When the troops are coming home in 2006 and Iraq is stable, we'll remind them whose war it was.
So the Liberation of Millions of Iraqi's that voted triumphantly with purple fingers is Bush's SUCCESS and our TROOPS success. Good to know. Just don't come crawling for credit Di. We're slamming the door in your face.
Well .. since Diane wants to call it "his war" - I don't suppose she'll mind when the Iraqi people erect a statute of Bush in the center square of Baghdad with the title: "Avenger of the Bones".
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