Ed Koch ‘bailing out’ on support for war

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/20/ed-koch-bailing-out-on-support-for-war/

Ed Koch ‘bailing out’ on support for war.

Last year, former New York City mayor Ed Koch attacked war critics for their attempts to “weaken the president“:

There is something terribly wrong with people seeking to demean and weaken the president in war time, thereby strengthening our country’s enemies. As a result of the language and tactics of those opposed to our presence in Iraq, our enemies have been emboldened, believing the American public to be sharply divided on the war, and in fact at war with itself.

But in the Politico today, Koch bails out:

I’m bailing out. I will no longer defend the policy of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq to assist the Iraqi central government in the ongoing civil war.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. It's about time, queen!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Ed Koch is once again...

Living proof that it is a girl's right to change her mind. ;-)

[BuyingThyme]

2. There's something terribly wrong with a freak who thinks democracies can be

strengthened by demeaning and weakening those who speak truth.

[EVDebs]

3. Maybe Ed's rethinking 'From the Nile to the Euphrates'

and how that plays into the terrorist's and radical Islamist's gameplan,

Greater Israel
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/greater-israel.htm

Talk about stupid is as stupid does !

[MonkeyFunk]

4. well

it's better than nothing, but fuck Ed Koch anyway.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Ed Koch is still alive?

[CatWoman]

8. "How am I doing"?

:)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. I love The Critic!

:rofl:

"IT STINKS!"

[Javaman]

7. Wow, that was a quick change of heart. Heard him in an interview only

two weeks ago and he was all gung ho for the war. I guess he finally washed the shit out of his eyes.

come on ed get off that sinking ship now. You're a nut bag, but at least you now see morons* folly for what it is, a waste of human life.

[brentspeak]

9. Way past time to "bail out", Ed; that boat's hit the bottom of the ocean.

[IChing]

10. Good but he is still an asshole and a turncoat that voted for Bush

Ed Koch: I'm voting for Bush-2004

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40088

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Why should I care?

Ed Koch doesn't hold office and has no political clout whatsoever.

And he supports republicans as often as Joe Lieberman.

[frogcycle]

13. Ed who?

The song 'you're so vain' comes to mind. Who gives a shit whether he changed his mind - or his depends, for that matter?