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[kpete]

For Memorial Day: Editorials Still Oppose Iraq Withdrawals

By Greg Mitchell (Opinion)
Published: May 29, 2006

NEW YORK Today marks another Memorial Day, this time with the American death toll in Iraq well past 2400 lives, with over 18,000 injured. Just over six months have passed since hawkish Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) called for the beginning of a U.S. pullout in Iraq – and just days ago, President Bush outlined his latest plan, amid rumors of a withdrawal, to "stay the course,” amid graphic reports of a new “My Lai.”

All of this would seem to call out for a re-thinking of positions or assumptions on newspaper editorial pages. Indeed, three of the most influential did weigh in Sunday with Iraq editorials. All of them, despite strong crtiicism in the same editorials, came out against starting to bring the boys home.

This continues the depressing tradition of newspaper editorials saying most of the right things, and pressing charges against the administration’s handling of the war – while arguing for “more time” or “a few more months” for the latest “turning point” in Iraq to produce a positive outcome. This pattern could – and possibly will – go on nearly forever.

It ain’t funny how time slips away.

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[Mnemosyne]

1. I wonder how many more good articles will be

published by E&P now that whack-jobs have bought it out?

Thanks kpete!

[Hubert Flottz]

2. When will we invade the country where so many of the 9/11...

terrorists really did come from?

Instead we are choking off the flow of Iraqi oil and causing every barrel of oil that the Saudis own to be worth more money. If we could shut down the oil coming out of Iran we could make the Saudi oil worth even more! That would also make every barrel of oil that Exxon owns worth more money too. All of this helps the people who have really supported Bush and his daddy's friends, all along. The fact that the Saudis breed more terrorists, than about any other country planet, seems to have totally escaped bushco's detection, for some reason...