Keith Olbermann on the Democrats' Neville Chamberlain moment

[IndianaGreen]

He is on now, and he will have a special comment about the Democratic leadership cowardly cave in to Bush (his words).

I think he is going to sock it to the Vichy Democrats for "giving the Iraq store to Bush."

MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

MoveOn Opposes Iraq Bill – Urges All Democrats To Vote Against

Statement by Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action Executive Director

Voters elected Democrats in November to lead the way out of the mess in Iraq, but the supplemental bill to be voted on this week won't end the war. There are no real timelines or real accountability for the Bush administration -- just a blank check for an endless war.

A vote for this bill is a vote to continue President Bush's failed Iraq policy, and we'll be urging every last member of Congress to vote against it.

MoveOn members are asking us to consider all options for Democratic members of Congress who ran on ending the war but vote for more chaos and more troops in Iraq -- including in-district advertising and recruitment of primary challengers.

And we'll work hard so that Republicans who refuse to listen to the country on Iraq face a great political backlash in their home districts.

In an email this morning, MoveOn encouraged all 3.2 million of its members to urge Congress to vote no. In part, the email reads: "Every single Democrat must vote against this bill. This is a key test vote on whether your representative is serious about ending the war." The email was sent by MoveOn's Nita Chaudhary.

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http://pol.moveon.org/iraq/070523statement.html

[madrchsod]

1. dead bodies

it`s all about getting elected next year....what a "party"

[IndianaGreen]

2. Each day we delay defunding this oil war, is a day in which more bodies return to the USA

It is obscene how Bush and Democratic leaders in Congress are using the lives of our troops as cover for their political asses.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Partial transcript of Olbermann's Special Commentary

Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear:

Get us out of Iraq.

Yet after six months of preparation and execution—half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:

The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president—if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history—who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats “give the troops their money”;

The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;

The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.

The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18831132/