While the Administration may find a way to extricate itself from this debacle and to mitigate the political damage somewhat over time, the strident charges of racism, etc. by their mouthpieces will echo in the ears of conservative opponents of the deal for a very long time.
The whole thing has been one of the biggest political disasters I've ever seen.
And the real winners are the internal enemies of our country.
How else could the Dems possibly have gotten to the right of the GOP on national security?
As the first bit of evidence to counter such notions, I enter exhibit A, one member of the freshman class at Yale, 27-year-old Sayyid Rahmatullah Hashemi, who served as a diplomat for the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
How on earth does it happen that a Taliban apologist makes his way into one of our top institutions in this way and w/o scrutiny. I'm sure he has nothing but the best of intentions in life. LOL...
Have you all read this post?
BREAKING! (video)-CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI: Dick Morris
O'Reilly Factor | 3.03.06 | Mia T
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589753/posts
On Thursday, Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told reporters, "I intend to do everything I can do to kill the deal."President Bush has threatened to veto any congressional attempt to block the deal, warning that it would risk alienating a key U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf.
Either our representatives trust the Commander in Chief or they don't.
If not then the WOT is over and we had better gather ourselves in and make amends with those we have offended. This isn't an argument about how much more the feds will pick our pockets it's about our war time foreign policy. It concerns the heart of the region where the war emanated from to boot. A command falls apart when every decision is questioned and war cannot be successfully waged under this kind of disarray.