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More Bill Curry on Huffpo

by: joesaho

Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 15:01:12 PM EST


Bill Curry again on  Huffpo, this time he comes out swinging at King George.

Bush says we will "help Iraqis... secure neighborhoods... help protect the local population... help ensure... the security Baghdad needs." It sounds like a support role. His real plan is to put more troops in even greater danger: door to door urban warfare of the sort any army dreads.

Bush said we sent too few troops to Iraq and placed too many restrictions on them. He left out that our ineptitude bred chaos; that our hunger for oil and military bases bred cynicism and that our few allies were quietly going home. The only mistakes he admitted were tactical errors of his previous commanders.

What's amazing is the poor job Democrats do refuting him. With an electoral mandate, the support of the old foreign policy establishment and wide support even among the military, you'd think they'd be eager to expose his dissembling and make the case for change. Not quite.

They have their own problems with the truth. On 'Meet the Press,' Joe Biden claimed the constitution won't let Congress end the war. Clinton alum Leon Panetta said "the system" prevents Democrats from taking action. Barack Obama saw it that way too, but then hedged.

It isn't all bad. Chris Dodd wants to cap troop levels. Hillary Clinton now says she's for a cap too. Credit Ned Lamont's primary win for showing Democrats early on you can't support the war and win a primary. The presidential primary debate has begun driving debate in Congress and that's a good thing.

Curry goes on to talk about about a new politics - not a politics of hope, but a politics of reality and truth. Personally, I think the best way to get there is to knock the Fox News satellite out of orbit, but in lieu of that I guess we have to keep blogging, writing LTTE's and communicating with our neighbors.

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