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]]>I take responsibility for my vote. Obviously I did as good a job I could at the time. It was a sincere vote based on the information available to me. And I’ve said many times that if I knew then what I now know, I would not have voted that way.
But I think the real question before us is, what do we do now? How do we try to persuade or require this president to change course? He is stubbornly refusing to listen to the will of the American people. He threatens to veto the legislation we passed, which has been something that all of us have been advocating for a number of years now. And I can only hope that he will not veto it. And I can only end by saying that, you know, if the president does not get us out of Iraq, when I’m president, I will.
Sorry? Was it not Hillary that said this in December 2005?
Meanwhile, Barack Obama essentially predicted the sectarian violence we see in Iraq today back in 2002 - before the invasion began. He has been an outspoken critic of the war as well as the Administration’s handling of it from the beginning, yet somehow after last night the voting public is left with the impression that there is little distinction between Obama and Clinton on the war in Iraq.
As usual, Hillary has managed to distance herself from the ugly truth. She was unwilling to sign onto a timetable for withdrawal until she realized that the country would no longer stand for the commitment of U.S. military troops for an undetermined amount of time. Only then did she weakly pronounce her ‘timetable for withdrawal’.
For now, Hillary has managed to evade the tough questions on her Iraq policy over the years, but hopefully her colleagues and the media will call her on it the next time around …
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]]>[O]ur rivals are not one another, not even the other party; it’s going to be cynicism.
Too often this cynicism makes us afraid to say what we believe. It makes us fearful. We don’t trust the truth. It’s caused our politics to become small, and timid, and calculating, and cautious.
We spend all our time thinking about tactics, and manoeuvres, knowing that if we spoke the truth, and addressed the issues with boldness, that we might be labelled. It might lead to our defeat.
If you oppose the war then you’re not a patriot. If you oppose tax cuts then you’re engaging in class warfare. We internalize these fears. We edit ourselves. We censor our best instincts. It’s America that suffers most from this can’t-do, won’t-do, won’t-even-try style of politics.
Finally, the Democrats have a message worth rallying behind …
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]]>The deaths of the [five]U.S. troops, combined with a helicopter crash that killed 12 U.S. soldiers, made Saturday the deadliest day for U.S. forces in two years. It was also the third-highest of any single day since the war began in March 2003, eclipsed only by 37 U.S. deaths on Jan. 26, 2005, and 28 on the third day of the U.S. invasion. U.S. authorities also announced two American combat deaths from Friday.
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]]>In addition to this troop surge, Bush is expected to announce a one billion US dollar aid package to Iraq to create jobs and "boost" the economy. All I can say is "what economy?" I suspect this one billion dollars is actually meant to start oil production since the country has no economy to speak of. Meanwhile funding for the troop surge will cost several billion dollars on top of the more than 350 billion dollars the U.S. has already spent.
I do not see this passing Congress, but maybe that’s what the President wants, if Congress cuts off funding than Bush can throw his hands up in the air and say, "Look folks, I tried to fix it but the Democrats wouldn’t let me." That, or he still has not figured out that no number of "Our Fathers’" is going to turn Iraq into a stable democracy.
Then again, what does the President care? He just needs to make it through the next year and then it’s someone else’s problem.
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]]>At the top of the agenda for most religious folks is the need to restrict same-sex marriage. Yet for some religious people even though sentencing a person to death is a sin, you don’t see "anti-death penalty" provisions on state ballots nationwide … why is that? It seems to me that protecting living beings would be at the top of a holy person’s agenda. Wait a minute I seem to remember something about religious people caring about living beings … oh right now I remember, it’s the unborn they care about.
To recap:
- Killing the unborn: Mortal sin.
- Marrying another dude: Sin City.
- Killing another person that’s actually walking around in the flesh: Look the other way and pretend it is not happening.
I hear from the Christian movement ad nauseam, "We must protect the tradition of family to stay alive. Family is the bedrock of society!" Tell me, what effect does the state’s murder of someone’s son, father, brother, or husband have on your traditional notions of family? What amount of human suffering and tragedy is put upon the family of an individual executed by his government? Is this damage to the family core perhaps greater than the damage done to "traditional family values" when two people of the same gender pledge themselves to each other for the rest of their lives?
It seems to me that if your "God" did exist the way you claim he does then he would rather see you all take up causes greater than invading other people’s privacy.
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]]>Number 1:
Gay is the new black
Number 2:
Juses loves you, Adam. He loves you. He purrs when he thinks of you and in your sleep, Juses rubs his belly across your hands and his back across your tongue. Prrrrr…..
Number 3:
It’s really sick, almost as sick as people who think homosexuality is a disease and can be cured.
Number 4:
Is there a number of crucifixes or images of man that are claimed as your Christ that I can set on fire such that people like yourself will finally say, "OK, Christ no longer loves [you]?" How do I blaspheme your mystic figures sufficiently that they’ll stop loving me?
Number 5:
This is what is called fiction. Now please standby for what is called the truth.
Number 6:
… [H]e is obviously in disassociative extremis and unable to connect the day glow dots.
Number 7:
Al Gore went to seminary, does that make his views on global warming faith-based?
Number 8:
As though there were any doubt of this outcome, AE’s analysis of polygamous blogs from the Left confirmed his suspicions that liberals want to eat babies and slap his grandma. Fair enough.
Number 9:
I’m glad you’ve moved from the dark side. Welcome to freedom.
Number 10:
Mary Cheney is pregnant. And, she plans to raise it with the help of her lesbian lover. Man, that ought to really sicken the right-wing wackos!
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