This is just the sort of quote you want coming from a Dem during war time, right?
"They won't be able to continue ... They won't have the equipment, they don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work." [source]
That's Murtha on his efforts to stop the war/troop buildup by cutting its funding.
If the Dems continue with this strategy, they will play right into the GOP's hands. The administration, and everyone else, will be able to say, "Hey, we had a strategy, and the Democrats wouldn't fund it, and that's why we are not winning." That stain will be on the Democrats for a generation, and no Republican will be held accountable for anything that has gone wrong.
So what should be done? Joe Biden floated an idea the other day that is novel, but didn't get much attention: Revoke Bush's authority to prosecute the war. Biden says the original resolution authorized Bush to neutralize the WMDs and deal with Saddam. That's been done, so the resolution has expired. Time for a new one.
Avid fans of Steven Soderbergh may noticed a small parallel to Out of Sight in last night's episode of Lost.
Here's the opening scene of Out of Sight:
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Here's a scene from Lost.
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Both scenes occur after the characters were offered lowly jobs by senior officers of large corporations (whom they had a personal connection to). The experience leaves both men feeling desperate.
Another parallel in tonight's episode ("Flashes Before Your Eyes"): Desmond is the second character to have a job offered to him by the father of the woman he was involved with. Also, Charlie had a similar relationship with the family of that girl he robbed.
Today's NYT features this dispatch from Anemona Hartocollis:
A man who stabbed his wife to death after his marriage deteriorated into what he described as a decade-long period of psychological warfare was acquitted of murder yesterday...
The five-week-long trial was a psychodrama of Tolstoyan, or perhaps Dostoyevskian, proportions.
Wow, two Russian literature references and one parallelism in just a few sentences. Way to go, Anemona! CompLit grad students throughout the tri-state area swoon.
"As president I know I can't kill, jail or occupy every nation we don't agree with and I cannot just wish that all the terrorists be wiped off the face of the Earth." - Hillary Clinton, 2/10/2007
That sure sounds familiar....
"If you got an interdependent world, and you cannot kill, jail or occupy all your adversaries, sooner or later you have to make a deal." - Bill Clinton, 4/16/2003
It's Biden '88 all over again, except this time there's a sex angle! At least she avoided the "make a deal" rhetoric! That would've become the "global test" of 2008.
I can't believe they've had all this time to come up with a response to this question, and this is the best they can come up with:
"I gave him the authority to send inspectors back in to determine the truth. I said this is not a vote to authorize pre-emptive war," she said in answer to a question from one of about 250 voters crammed into Berlin's city hall in New Hampshire's frozen north. [source]
Are you kidding me? So while the other 99 senators knew they were voting to authorize a war in Iraq, Hillary thought she was voting on a resolution to send in "inspectors"? Yeah, right. Something tells me this answer will not be used much longer. If it is, we know the Dukakis/Gore/Kerry advisers have gotten to her.