Call Them On This Big, Damn Lie

[babylonsister]

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Joe Cutbirth
05.25.2007
Call Them On This Big, Damn Lie

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When Rahm Emanuel, whom I've liked over the years, says the vote this week was the beginning of the end of the Bush War, I can't believe he and I are on the same planet. To me, it was the escalation of the Bush War.

Was I imagining the stories about a "second surge"? Or was I just having a Vietnam flashback? (We call it a "surge," by the way, because the word "escalate" reminds us too much of Vietnam, sort of like the way we use "sectarian violence" instead of "civil war" and try and avoid the use of the word "quagmire." All of those are frames.)

The cold hard truth is our elected representatives - afraid to be tarred as an unpatriotic, ungrateful liberal by Rush Limbaugh, Matthews and every other media type who uses the phrase "cut off funding for the troops" - decided to wait until more of those idealistic young people who have been fighting for our freedom in Asia are killed over the summer to force the president to sign a bill that brings them home and ends this war that is making us less safe every day it continues.

The disgusting reality is that we know eventually Congress will vote to bring them home - the body count and the pictures of the carnage on television just haven't become horrific enough for our leaders to do what they were elected last November to do: end this war.

Maybe by September, that will have changed.

There should be a special memorial with the names of the soldiers who die between this week, when Congress backed down, and the time, hopefully this fall, when it stands tall and starts talking about this appropriation for what it is - money to bring the troops home.

[snappyturtle]

1. The whole thingis pathetic....what are we supposed to say to

our loved ones in Iraq? Just hang on a little longer,watch your back at all times and hopefully, by September, the war funding will stop and you'll be scheduled, God knows when exactly, to come home. I STILL can't believe the vote went the way it did with all the lives in the balance.

[Breeze54]

2. Hard to wrap my head around this BS!!

"The disgusting reality is that we know eventually Congress will vote to bring them home"

That's what gets me too. This BS about 'waiting until September' ...

...while more are slaughtered in this, now a civil war, escalation and quagmire!!

:grr:

K & R'd

Thanks babylonsister...

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