Fortunately, NPR reported on it, and the story was picked up by other TV Networks. Clearly a commitment to defend Iraq from external and INTERNAL threats is News! I don’t know what other news sources and blogs carried the story…but Bush reacted to the story getting out by backing out.
This same pattern occured with Bush’s desire to attack Iran Militarily. Kudos to Seymore Hersch.

It’s a shame that the press’s backbone only developed after about six years of disasterous Bush Damage to our country.

“As a liberal/progressive…”

they get confused if they get away from the boilerplate.

It’s repuglycan obstructionists who are preventing it, in the Senate.

Half of your party voted for Hillary and she has most of the super delegates.

Hillary has 80 more bound delegates than Obama, it isn’t about how the vote went.

Super delegates are not bound at the convention. A recent poll showed Hillary being currently favored. That doesn’t mean they are hers.
Do your homework.

Um so you’re going to argue semantics about what the war is called? you sound like a Bush Republican.

it’s true that the democrats have lost their way and spine as much as the Republicans have been corrupted from true conservatism.

Who cares if it’s not an official war…. hundreds of thousands are dead and dying and the democrats won’t stand to end it.

Half of your party voted for Hillary and she has most of the super delegates.

that tells me that half of your party is ok with somebody who
1. voted for the war.
2. hasn’t set a clear table to end it.

So what does that say about the democrats?

You compromise until you have nothing left.

Comment by Constitutionalist

This is as divisive a statement as you can make here. It is designed to rip alliances based on hatred of hillary….you are a troll until you prove otherwise and i will treat you as such.

Perhaps if you commented on the topic of the thread, one would appreciate the point you were trying to make…

The topic of the thread is the BushitCo “arrangement” with Iraq.

Got anything to say about that?

why do you guys even cover the war?

your party doesn’t even stand strongly to end it.

Comment by Constitutionalist — February 6, 2008 @ 12:54 pm

That comment was designed to start trouble. First of all, if you’ve ever been here before, you would know that posters here are not strictly Democrats. Secondly, are you implying that we should blindly file down the path that the party leaders are advocating?

Constitutionalist, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt (for now) and stop calling you a troll. But you are talking like a troll since you are trashing Democrats and you seem to think that because we are criticizing what you have to say, we are censoring you. If we were censoring you, you would not be able to post here at all, like the Republiscum sites.

Your trashing the Democratic party is what makes us think you are a troll. We have had many trolls here recently who come here and proclaim that they are a Liberal and then proceed to trash liberals and progressives. Your views sound decidedly un-liberal so you can get used to being criticized here or you can choose to leave. The choice is yours.

You’re right. I plead “old timer’s disease”.

But the sentiment was correct.

I have a right to voice my opinion.

or are you all censorship nazis now too?

ha bilbo keeps doin this…….easy error. I respect and amire both John Edwards and Al Gore….wish we had them both totally engaged in our countries decision making proces..

Half of your party voted for Hillary and she has most of the super delegates.
that tells me that half of your party is ok with somebody who
1. voted for the war.
2. hasn’t set a clear table to end it.
So what does that say about the democrats?
You compromise until you have nothing left.
Comment by Constitutionalist

The new troll thinks that the Democrats have done nothing to stop the occupation. Apparently it is forgetting that they have tried at least twice to cut funding but because of the obstructionist Republiscums they were unsuccessful in their endeavor. I guess this troll thinks that the Democrats can just wave their magic wand and make the Republiscum obstructionists go away. If only that were true.

This troll also is indicating that the Democrats voted for the so-called “war”. In fact most Democrats opposed it. And they have not set a clear timetable to end the occupation because every time they try to do it, the Republiscums either threaten to filibuster or in the case of the one bill that was passed, Bush vetoed it.

I am not happy with the stand the Democrats have taken. I believe they should put forth a bill ending the occupation and keep sending it back time and time again, allowing the Republiscums to show who they really are. But, that does not fit within the reality of the political system as it stands today.

To our new troll – Tinker Bell is a mythical figure. We can’t get what we want just by wishing for it. With the Republiscums still holding enough seats to block anything the Democrats want to do, there is relatively little they can do until after the 2008 election.