Posted on 06/24/2005 8:18:20 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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.
Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy was the first to say more than a year ago that "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam." Seven months back, some 121 million votes were cast in a national election fought on those terms between George Bush and John Kerry. Zarqawi has calculated, perhaps correctly, that a hundred tiny Tet offensives can equal one. The effect is the same: The opposition finds a political voice inside the U.S. and begins the process of offloading an "unpopular" war onto the President. Thus, "It's his war."
On the reconstruction he called a "disaster," Mr. Biden got into considerable detail: "Instead of building the tertiary sewer treatment plant, we should be running PVC pipe out of the back of homes, into the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
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When I saw "Fatboy" Kennedy question Rumsfeld the other day, I wanted to hurl. That is what "progress reports" would be like and thankfully, it just ain't a-gonna happen.
Ahem, didn't the majority of congress VOTE for the war in Iraq?
More squeamish squishy RAT politicians who can't be counted on when the going gets tough.
A very good reminder...THEY voted for the darned thing.
And they can scream all they want about how Bush lied about WMD. But when Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act in '97 (or '98?), they all went on national television to talk about what a threat Iraq was because of WMD.
We have the lists of quotes but the Rats keep forgetting we can look this stuff up.
And Kerry actually went on Cokie Robert's show on ABC and endorsed American boots on the ground! And that was pre 9/11.
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