How many Zell Miller clones were made before the mold was broken anyhow?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/bush-d01_prn.shtml<snip>
The bipartisan campaign in support of the war was summed up by back-to-back statements from Senator Joseph Lieberman (Democrat of Connecticut) and President Bush, both of them claiming a "strategy for victory" in Iraq.
Lieberman's comments appeared in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, while Bush delivered his in a speech to a captive audience of Naval Academy midshipmen the following day. Bothn made claims of success for US policy that are wildly at odds with the grim realities in Iraq.
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The sea-change in attitudes towards the war has been fueled by the mounting death toll of American troops--now standing at 2,110--as well as the exposure of the Bush administration's criminality, from it's indifference to the victims of Hurricane Katrina to the CIA leak case and the expanding web of corruption scandals engulfing the Republican Party.
Opposition to the war has grown as well within the officer corps, which fears that the occupation and counterinsurgency campaign are threatening the US military with disintegration.
The dissension within the top ranks of the military gave rise to the call earlier this month by Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Colonel and longtime supporter of the Pentagon, for the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq within six months. The proposal, coming from someone who had supported every US military action since Vietnam, threw the White House into crisis and prompted the latest public relations campaign.
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Lieberman repeated the ridiculous refrain that the struggle in Iraq "is a war between...27 million Iraqi's who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists."
If, indeed, the odds are 27 million to 10,000--that is 2,700 to 1--why are 160,000 US troops needed in Iraq, and why are they incapable of suppressing the resistance, or even securing the center of Baghdad?
Lieberman doesn't bother to explain this incongruity. Nor does he explain how the "10,000" continue not only to fight, after the US occupation forces have killed or imprisoned many times that number of Iraqis, but have escalated their actions--with insurgent attacks increasing from 150 to over 700 a week in the last year.
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This is an extraordinarily good article. I wouldn't piss on Lieberman if he were ablaze right in front of me! :headbang:
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