If there ever was a post I could have written a year ago, and just "left alone" as I worked on my day to day life (triathlon, running, work, etc.), this is probably the one.
I watched parts of Bush's speech tonight. Is there anything new? Ok, I mean REALLY new - I don't mean CNN fawning over the "troops are coming home next summer" crap - how many times have we heard that troops would be coming home in 6 months (or if you will, one Friedman Unit, or FU - as Atrios likes to refer to it). This is another meaningless gesture. Troops may be coming home in 6 or 9 months, but it will be because they simply cannot extend the tours any longer. There is a limit. Eventually, Alexander the Great's soldiers wouldn't follow him either, and Bush is certainly no Alexander the Great. Things are getting better. The surge is working. I mean, if you will recall, the last plan was working well, before we had to discard it as a miserable failure (shhhh...don't tell Joe Lieberman - sometimes its dangerous to pop the bubbles that the truly delusional or insane place themselves in). So goes the surge. And in 5 months, we'll be trying something new. AND, when we try something new, Bush will say that the troops could start coming home by November. CNN at that time will trumpet this as a great new development. Your so called liberal media hard at work.
I think that Chris Matthews hit it dead on right, when he referred to one of Bush's comments (re: the US is one of 36 nations fighting in Iraq) - its absolutely ludicrous.
So who among our Senators and congress-critters have the cojones to stand up to the current situation and say basta! with regards to funding the war. If you fund the war, you are enabling the war, just like a parent who funds their child's drug habit.
Bush and Iraq
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