What Hunter said...

[Coexist]

Hunter's Diary

There was no way this bill, or any bill, was going to end the war. It couldn't happen: even the most rapid "orderly" withdrawal would take months. Even if the President listened. Even if all went according to plan. So the point here was not to end the war, the point was to start ending the war, by at the very least providing metrics for deciding what "ending" looked like. Right now we don't have even that. Right now, we have absolutely no meaningful constraints or metrics by which the administration is even required to justify themselves, the ongoing expenses, or the ongoing deaths. There is no plan to refocus the fight on terror onto actual terrorists; there is no plan that will better achieve Iraqi stability; there is no plan to leave. There is no plan, period, other than to rotate more troops in and out and see what happens, and that, I think, is as much a betrayal of the troops as they have yet to see in this war.

All that was necessary -- all that was required -- was a start. Grabbing the reins of responsibility for this war, since the administration and the Republican party have been so insistent on tossing them aside at every opportunity, and steering it somewhere, or slowing it down, or finally easing it to a stop.

We don't have that. We don't have anything more than the shadow of a promise that it might be forthcoming, at some future date.

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I say yet again: it's not OK. It's OK to admit defeat, it's OK to try and fail, it's OK to make a little progress; it's not OK to make next-to-none, then bluster about it.

please read the rest...

Strangely, I find my anger more and more being directed at Rahm Emmanuel. Maybe it was that really, REALLY lame-ass email I received from the DCCC yesterday about the "victory" this vote was. Maybe its his smarmy taking-all-the-credit-for-the-last-election idiocy. I don't know - I just know that in my gut, I feel he is behind the Capitulation Bill and its success. And I am still angry. Endlessly, bottomlessly angry.

[EFerrari]

1. What hunter said. Exact.ly.

[tblue]

2. Now is NOT the time to be soliciting $$$ from the party faithful. How out of touch can they be?

I do believe the money would've flowed beyond their dreams if they'd just held their ground.

Though I'm starting, just barely, but I'm just starting to see a light at the end of all this. I still have hope.

[Coexist]

3. how so?

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting"
Ben Franklin

[Coexist]

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