Why Our Side Is Going to Win in 2006 - by Trey Ellis/ Huff Post

[applegrove]

Why Our Side Is Going to Win in 2006


"These are exciting times we live in. This is going to be an exciting new year. Who would have thought that in 2006 Americans today would be facing the same choices that were presented to our founding fathers. Think about how this Administration seems to go out of its way to trample even some of the most basic rights of a free society.

From masquerading government propaganda as local news segments to torturing prisoners to illegal wiretapping to lying a nation into war the runaway Bush administration is presenting the American people with two choices, tyranny or liberty. Despite the long odds, I feel that liberty will, eventually, win out.

This is not an issue of Left and Right. That is why Republicans like John Sununu can quote Ben Franklin on the floor of the Senate: "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." The neoconservatives currently in power are a minority within their own party and their anti-democratic imperialism is finally being perceived as a threat to all of us, not only to the Left and the Center but now also to old-fashioned laissez-faire Republicans and Libertarians. Even conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks thinks it might be a good idea if the Democrats win back one of the houses of government in the midterms.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/why-our-side-is-going-to-_b_12608.html

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1. the only way we will win....

if we get our act together. you cant have Dean say we cant win in iraq and expect to win in '06. all the doom and gloom i see from some here at the DU isnt going to win in '06. even if some of the statements do have some truth to them they arent going to help. the right wing has perfected the smear tactic and using quotes out of context and then using that to distract from their own failures. when they attack us we need to strick back twice as hard and twice as aggressive. this is what kerry DIDNT do in '04 and that is why he lost.

[applegrove]

2. We don't have to fall into the trap of being for any war or against any

war. Dean wasn't for this war and he was likely right. As to what happens now - well there is much room for Kerry and others to talk about what they would have done as non-neocons. And what we have to do.

The war is a dead donckey - I mean a dead issue. It was implemented wrong, it was based on lies. And it will result in more instability in the region. and has seen terrosim grow. Those things are all in the books. Sixty percent of americans see that and the Dems are the only ones who speak to that.

Dems need to keep on the tail of the Repubs on this. Pre-emptive war carried out negligently is never the way to go. That is a pretty clear ideal. And a majority one.

I don't see defence as being a big issue with the dems as they have been erring on the side of hawkishness to their own chagrin.

Nobody can say they are wimps. Or that they cut and run cause even Murtha wasn't talking about that - he was talking about redeploying troops to disengage the notion America is an occupier. A policy Bush WH now is pursuing.

Courage my friend.

It isn't a white and black world that the adolescents in the WH won on the last few times. Adults are back into nuance.

[yurbud]

3. Dems are wimps in facing corporate stranglehold on our democracy

If no one could profit, there would be no war.

It is hardly being tough to kick the ass of a country who we easily beat a decade before and destroyed 80% of their military in the process.