Clinton in Good Company
13 September 2007 9:28 am by Taylor Marsh
Clinton in Good Company updated
Oh, puh-lease.
Distract?
Republicans wish. Politico.com is confused. What the Republicans are trying
to do is not only change the subject, but hope that their political brush fire
will deter Democrats from the mission. Nothing could be more laughable. But the only hope Republicans have is to keep the MoveOn.org* kerfuffle afloat long enough so more people find out about it. However, in reality it’s inside baseball baloney.
No one is distracted on our side and Republicans scquealing “over here!” isn’t going to matter. Democrats are united: we want out of Iraq. This war is making
passions flare, but anyone who lived through Vietnam will understand that when
a war turns as sour as the Iraq war has you’re going to get citizen outrage.
What’s more worthy of decrying: a) a preemptive war without end that is making
us less safe; b) an ad* calling out the marketing plan that is being used to
hide the president’s failed strategy? It’s not even close.
But going
after Clinton is desperate in the extreme. It’s hard to make a
case when Clinton has such fine company in calling Petraeus out. Besides, telling General
Petraeus that the report he delivered for the White House requires a “willing
suspension of disbelief” is hardly a slap at the general. (To add: Clinton’s comment doesn’t come close to Boehner’s slur on the troops.) It’s talking
truth to power. Clinton could have said much worse and gotten distracted, but
she didn’t.
One more time, with
emphasis:
In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of
the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus’s superior, Admiral
William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as
a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to
Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be “an ass-kissing
little chickenshit” and added, “I hate people like that”, the
sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the
meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate
himself with a superior.
Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (USA, ret.) and Brig. Gen. John Johns (USA, ret.) have
both called for withdrawal
from Iraq (h/t).
Listen to VoteVets.org and all the other veterans and Gold Star families who
are sick of the carnage in Iraq, because the Iraqis are not doing what’s required,
while U.S. soldiers continue to die to give them a chance.
More evidence of the futility our soldiers are facing is that the oil
deal has now fallen apart. The political movement is non-existent. What
is the point of U.S. soldiers dying for Iraqis when they won’t even make important
political compromises to bring the country together, however fragilely?
You’ve got a choice. If you want to stay in Iraq for the next 10 years,
support Republicans. If you don’t there is only one place for you, and that
is to support the Democratic efforts to redeploy from Iraq. That’s one thing
Petraeus has done for us all this week, with the help of an irate ad* supported
by donations from millions of Americans who simply cannot stand what’s happening
in Iraq any longer. Political battle lines are now drawn clearly.
*DISCLOSURE: The only group to which I belong is the Democratic Party. I do not give money to any other group, whether it’s Planned Parenthood, MoveOn.org, NARAL or anyone else, though I have sent donations on occasion to Sierra Club, as well as select candidates I support.
