Still dancing to Ollie's tune

[bemildred]

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That 80s show

Today, with that establishment shackled to the most ruinous war in recent US history, the Republicans, taking a page out of Oliver North's songbook, decided that the best defense was to go on the offensive, to turn the upcoming midterm vote into a debate on Iraq and national security. Up until the eve of the recent Mark Foley scandal, the strategy seemed like it just might be working once again. The Democrats were losing momentum in the run-up to next month's elections, unanimously consenting to a distended military budget, and watching silently as Republicans, with significant Democratic support, revoked habeas corpus and gave the president the right to torture at will.

Foley-gate, along with a cascade of other scandals, controversies, and bad war news, may indeed now give the Democrats the House and perhaps even the Senate. But already there are reports that, if they do take over Congress, their agenda will have a remarkably 1986-ish look to it: hearings and calls for more congressional "oversight" of foreign policy that leave uncontested the crusading premises driving the president's extremist foreign policy.

If the Democratic Party wants to halt, or even reverse, its long decline and avoid yet again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, it will need to do more than investigate the six-year reign of corruption, incompetence and arrogance presided over by Cheney and company.

Progressive politicians who protest the war in Iraq will have to do more than criticize the way it has been fought or demand to have more of a say in how it is waged. They must challenge the militarism that justified the invasion and that has made war the option of first resort for too many American foreign-policy makers. Otherwise, no matter how many tanks they drive or veterans they nominate - or congressional seats they pick up - the Democrats will always be dancing to Ollie's tune.

Asia Times

[underpants]

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[rodeodance]

3. hey--Dems can mulittask.

[ShortnFiery]

4. He's considered a Traitor to our Country by

my husband and his fellow USMC retired friends.

It's a myth that The Corps (The real Corps consisting of the troops, not General Officers) respects this man.

During Iran-Contra he proved that he was a TRAITOR to our beloved country.

Semper Fi, IMO, means nothing to Oliver North. :grr:

[formercia]

5. Unit, Corps, God, country

combine that with a Crusader mentality and you have problems.

The lower case c was a joke,son.

[formercia]

2. Ollie is a Knight of Malta

sorry, I just had to say that....:evilgrin: