Wingnut Brownback Knocks Down Lieberman Claim That Iraq Resolutions ‘Encourage The Enemy’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/28/brownback-knocks-down-lieberman-claim-that-iraq-resolutions-encourage-the-enemy/

LIEBERMAN: I fear that while this resolution is non-binding and, therefore, will not affect the implementation of the plan, it will do two things that can be harmful, which is that it will discourage our troops, who we’re asking to carry out this new plan, and it will encourage the enemy, because as General Petraeus said to our committee, war is a test of wills, and you don’t want your enemy to be given any hope.



BROWNBACK: I don’t — I don’t see this enemy as needing any more emboldening or getting it from any resolution. They’re emboldened now. I was there two weeks ago in Iraq. I was in Baghdad. I was in northern Iraq. This is a very aggressive situation. You have sectarian violence of Sunni and Shia. I was in the Kurdish area. They were talking about we have to get the Sunni and Shia together. I talked with the head of the Kurdish group. He said he wouldn’t vote for more troops because you have to first force the Sunni and Shia to sit down and talk about a political accommodation and that’s not happening.

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1. Rolling Stone article on Sen Sam Brownback

an excellent article if you haven't read it yet


God's Senator
Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator

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After little more than a decade in Washington, Brownback has managed to position himself at the very center of the Christian conservative uprising that is transforming American politics. Just six years ago, winning the evangelical vote required only a veneer of bland normalcy, nothing more than George Bush's vague assurance that Jesus was his favorite philosopher. Now, Brownback seeks something far more radical: not faith-based politics but faith in place of politics. In his dream America, the one he believes both the Bible and the Constitution promise, the state will simply wither away. In its place will be a country so suffused with God and the free market that the social fabric of the last hundred years -- schools, Social Security, welfare -- will be privatized or simply done away with. There will be no abortions; sex will be confined to heterosexual marriage. Men will lead families, mothers will tend children, and big business and the church will take care of all.

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Oh so much more in the article. Will curl your hair.

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2. Well, in this one case, and this one case only, I'll side with Brownback.

But if you quote me later, I'll be sure to deny it. :P