[Peace-discuss] 3/5 of House Dems "Obsessed" with Afghan Withdrawal Timetable

[C. G. Estabrook]

This is a wonderful exercise of interpretation in meliorem partem, Bob - looking 
on the bright side.

It was of course the Democrats who arranged the funding for the administration's 
escalation of its massive killing of men, women, and children half a world away.

It's hardly a victory that some timorous Democrats once again voted for the 
tired fig-leak of a "timetable."

That doesn't even approach the much more forthright statement by the chairman of 
the Republican [sic] National Committee:

"...has [Obama] not understood that the one thing you don't do is engage in a 
land war in Afghanistan? ... Because everyone who's tried, over a thousand years 
of history, has failed. There are reasons for that. And there are other ways to 
engage in Afghanistan."

I doubt that many people opposed to US invasion and occupation of the Middle 
East will vote Democratic this fall, on the basis of a "timeline."  --CGE


On 7/2/10 3:12 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> "Obsession" isn't just "a fragrance for men." According to our
> Commander-in-Chief, "obsession" now also characterizes the widespread
> interest in the timeline for bringing home 100,000 American boys and girls
> safely from Afghanistan so they can grow old with their sweethearts and lead
> economically productive lives, rather than becoming Pentagon statistics or
> lifelong burdens on their family members and the public purse.
>
> President Obama said there's "a lot of obsession" about the withdrawal date
> for U.S. troops from Afghanistan, AP reported Sunday.
>
> This "obsession" has so afflicted the body politic that Thursday night,
> three-fifths of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted for
> an amendment on the war supplemental that not only tried to lock in the July
> 2011 timetable for the beginning of the drawdown that President Obama
> promised last year, but also would have required the President to establish a
> timetable for the completion of the drawdown.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/35-of-house-dems-obsessed_b_634217.html
>
>  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/2/154425/8886