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To: Road Walker who wrote (350735)	9/19/2007 8:21:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

Americans are looking for leadership, somewhere, anywhere. At least one of the Democratic presidential contenders might have shown the guts to soundly slap the "General Betray-Us" headline on the ad placed by MoveOn.org in The Times, if only to deflate a counterproductive distraction. This left-wing brand of juvenile name-calling is as witless as the "Defeatocrats" and "cut and run" McCarthyism from the right; it at once undermined the serious charges against the data in the Petraeus progress report (including those charges in the same MoveOn ad) and allowed the war's cheerleaders to hyperventilate about a sideshow. "General Betray-Us" gave Republicans a furlough to avoid ownership of an Iraq policy that now has us supporting both sides of the Shiite-vs.-Sunni blood bath while simultaneously shutting America's doors on the millions of Iraqi refugees the blood bath has so far created. His comments that Moveon's behavior is juvenile......I understand what he means but what else do they have left. I have written decent letters to my congresspeople, asking hard questions, and get back fluff. Someone else criticized the pink ladies for disrupting the Congressional hearing. What choice did they have? Our congressional leaders are not doing their job, are not asking the hard questions and we are not allowed to ask questions of Petraeus. Are we all supposed to sit quietly at home and go to asleep?

To: Road Walker who wrote (350735)	9/21/2007 4:32:29 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572207

Last week Democrats often earned that rating, especially those running for president. It is true that they do not have the votes to overcome a Bush veto of any war legislation. But that doesn't mean the Democrats have to go on holiday. Few used their time to cross-examine General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker on their disingenuous talking points, choosing instead to regurgitate stump sentiments or ask uncoordinated, redundant questions. It's telling that the one question that drew blood — are we safer? — was asked by a Republican, John Warner, who is retiring from the Senate. I don't get what the Dems problems are....they're aren't clever enough? Are they corrupted almost as badly as the GOP? When they can't get a bill passed that will give the troops more time at home; when they waste time opposing a bill that would make English the official language of the US....a pure partisan move to get Latinos on board; when they vote to censure move-on, I think they are nearly as fucked as the GOP. I think we have to face the fact that this country may well be in its dotage and decline is its only way to go. That's the only thing I can see that explains this theater of the absurd.