Republicans feeling a new freedom, For many, Iraq becomes history lesson

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Boston Globe

MIAMI - Tommy Franks, the retired four-star general and a political debutante, may have violated a new Republican Party taboo almost as quickly as he opened his mouth while seated on a panel at the party's governors conference here last week.

"America made a stand, and it was not without cost, was it?" said Franks, who commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We have paid the cost and we are where we are today."

Franks appeared to be the only one who wanted to take responsibility for either war, even obliquely. The others who gathered in Miami seemed to relish the new freedom they inherited along with their party's devastating losses earlier this month: with President Bush and losing candidate John McCain drifting off the scene, Republicans no longer have to be the party of unpopular and seemingly unending conflicts abroad.

Those are now Democratic responsibilities, one Bush ally noted with some satisfaction, hinting at a corollary to the "Pottery Barn rule" about postwar responsibility: Republicans may have broken Iraq, but President-elect Barack Obama bought it.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/11/20/republicans_feeling_a_new_freedom/

[dkf]

1. Republicans broke more than Iraq...they broke capitalism.

and the economy, and our budget and our environment.

Now President-elect Obama has to put humpty dumpty back together again.

[NYC Liberal]

2. Except when Obama starts getting us out of that mess,

they'll start screaming their heads off and then they'll still be the War Party.

[KnaveRupe]

3. They broke it, Obama has to fix it...

... and the repugnicans will do everything in their power to keep him from doing so.

Ye gods, I hate those f*ckers.