Conscience in Connecticut?

[rodeodance]

you could probable hear a pin drop in this room. Yet it tells me that to honor the fallen, we have to continue on---to find some success in Irag.
That is my take on it. Thoughts




> Conscience in Connecticut?
> By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
> Posted on Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 03:30:19 PM EST
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> In my view, Chris Shays (R-CT) deserved defeat in his House race. He survived. But I tip my hat to him for this from his victory speech Tuesday night:
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> "I don't know how you'll react to this, but I want to also say this," he said, after quieting his supporters who'd been joyously chanting, "Two more years!" He then unfolded a piece of paper and read off a list of names. "I sent them to Iraq and they came home draped in American flags," Shays continued, as the once-raucous ballroom became eerily quiet. "I think about them almost every day of my life, and, when the press talked about how tormented I must feel about losing the election, they just didn't get it. ... The only torment I feel is for those families, and I pray that we can make it right for these families and that we will find a way to have our men and women come home from success, not failure, but that we find a way to bring them home." It was a numbing sentiment indeed.
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> Respect to you for that Representative Shays. Joe Lieberman would NEVER show that quality.
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[Justice]

1. "we will find a way to have our men and women come home from success, not failure"

you know, he sounds remorseful, but then he said this crap.

I hope he advocates for a greater focus on the ones coming home draped in flags and the ones coming home injured.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Who's failure?

If we should "lose" in Iraq who's failure would it be? Certainly not our brave and determined troops stationed there. The "loss" would be squarely on the shoulders of the man who so desperately wanted that war of revenge, George W. Bush.
There would never be a reason for our troops to hang their heads in shame should we pull out of Iraq before the nebulous "war on Terra'" was won. That shame rests with Bush and his neo-con pals who never had a plan, who wouldn't listen to the Generals and who lived in a bubble where everything was coming up roses, despite all evidence to the contrary.
This is Bush's war, Bush's failure. There is absolutely NO shame for our brave young men and women who were sacrificed for Bush's war of revenge and oil. NONE!
Bush will go down in history as the worst of the worst and rightly so.

[sendero]

3. I'm tired..

... of the Republicans' total willingness to sacrifice more good American men and women chasing what is nothing more than a sad illusion of a possible "success".

The time for a military success in Iraq passed over a year ago. Now they are just playing "double or nothing" with the lives of our military, with the odds of any success in the less than 1% range.

You guys failed. Get it? You failed. We told you not to go there and you laughed at us, excorciated us as "unpatriotic" or "soft on terror", but anyone with a modicum of common sense KNEW this was the result that awaited us.

Now, you don't want the lives wasted to be "in vain". It's really too late for that and it's on YOUR HANDS.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Well, it may be conscience or opportunism; but whichever it is, this is another good outcome of the

election.

The whole political spectrum may move slightly leftwards as the Republicans realize they've gone too far right for their own good; and leaders who have so far accepted the Iraq quagmire may realize they've GOT to sort it out. Too late, sadly, to bring back the thousands of people who've died; but at least perhaps in time to prevent thousands more deaths.