The Road Less Taken

The fact is, most of the comments on here will no reflect the American people, they will only reflect what those on the dailykos think.

Are people who go on Daily Kos not American people? I think that Markos Moulitsas here kind of has you here since many figures and polls cited that the majority of Americans want the war over.

Markos's post on getting out of Iraq reflects the desire of only 70% of the American public to be done with this disaster. He is obviously insane along with the rest of us 70-per-centers.

Markos's post on getting out of Iraq reflects the desire of only 70% of the American public to be done with this disaster. He is obviously insane along with the rest of us 70-per-centers.

Enter Your Comment The Republicans claims that the Democratic Congress is at fault needs to be debunked loudly and often. What the Public needs to know and which the Media seems not to want to report are the number of Filibusters the Right has done this year. 55 Filibusters is a new Congressional record. Reminders should be constant to that fact.

Oh, well! - http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gdZLbFMZDe-t2Ds7ULkuAAPTmcbQ
"WASHINGTON (AFP) ??? Republicans in the US Senate on Friday blocked a bid by majority Democrats to enforce the start of large-scale troop withdrawals from Iraq in exchange for 50 billion dollars in war funding.

The chamber voted 53-45 in favor of the bill, seven votes short of the 60 votes it needed to overcome
Republican blocking tactics in the closely-divided 100 seat chamber."

You were saying?

Update for Markos: Dateline, Pentagon. Gates vows to layoff civilian DOD workers rather than cut funding for Bush's Folly. Up to 100,000 could lose jobs due to failure of Democratic Party to pass Defense spending bill.

There's your future headline and it spells C-A-V-E for the Democrat Congress. It's hard to play offense when you've been on your knees for seven years in a "defensive" posture. The DINOs are being out-maneuvered again. A failure of leadership. Want to know where it stems from? When impeachment left the table. This Democratic leadership can't stand up because it doesn't have a spine.

Considering the war was "won" in 2003 with Bush's declaration that the mission's accomplished, you have to wonder what it is we're still doing over there, other than killing and dying. Millions of Iraqis displaced, ethnic cleansing ongoing, the Iraqi government ineffective and in a shambles, the vast majority of Iraqis themselves saying that the US presence makes things worse not better....

Bush, Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz, etc., made a disastrous blunder in dragging us into Iraq in the first place, and cannot afford to say they made a mistake after thousands of American troops have given their lives in service. But the American people can, and have said so, not to mention that we've told the government what we think by (as Mr Moulitsas points out) delivering a "landslide" change to government in 2006. Now it's up to us to keep pressure on our elected leaders to do what we told them to do; get us out of Iraq.

Considering the war was "won" in 2003 with Bush's declaration that the mission's accomplished, you have to wonder what it is we're still doing over there, other than killing and dying. Millions of Iraqis displaced, ethnic cleansing ongoing, the Iraqi government ineffective and in a shambles, the vast majority of Iraqis themselves saying that the US presence makes things worse not better....

Bush, Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz, etc., made a disastrous blunder in dragging us into Iraq in the first place, and cannot afford to say they made a mistake after thousands of American troops have given their lives in service. But the American people can, and have said so, not to mention that we've told the government what we think by (as Mr Moulitsas points out) delivering a "landslide" change to government in 2006. Now it's up to us to keep pressure on our elected leaders to do what we told them to do; get us out of Iraq.

"the "surge" is working they cannot afford to allow success in Iraq."

All of which makes perfect sense as long as one does not have to define either 'working' or 'sucess'.

Like Mr. Moulitsas, I hope and pray the Democrats stand fast. Aren't 4,000 dead and 30,000 wounded enough?

Too many young American lives have been lost alread in Bush's folly in the sand.

Good article. I agree that the Dems have proved completely spineless and far from ending the war and bringing an end to the misery of the people in Iraq they have caved in each and every time Bush requested funds without any conditions at all.

It is time they grew a backbone. The Dems deserve to be impeached as well along with Dick Cheney and Bush and the current regime.