Dems Are For New Direction...GOP Are For More Of The Same

im10ashus

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Thu Jun-22-06 08:45 AM
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Dems Are For New Direction...GOP Are For More Of The Same

via www.huffingtonpost.com

Democrats want a different direction in Iraq. Republicans back President Bush.

"The public is very happy about the fact that we have not been attacked since 9/11," Sen. Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record), the second-ranking Senate Republican, said, even though polls show voters are weary about the war that's in its fourth year.

"Americans want an exit strategy," countered Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif. "The status quo is a disaster."

The GOP-controlled Senate was poised to vote Thursday on two Democratic proposals to start redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq this year, a week after both houses of Congress soundly rejected withdrawal timetables.

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msongs

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Thu Jun-22-06 08:52 AM
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1. BETTER direction. give it some value for crap sake!

new direction. what kind of meaningless pablum is that? when an airplane goes nose down and crashes, that is a new direction.

who cares is the direction is new if it is NOT BETTER? use words that have value!

Msongs

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www.msongs.com/vocalistwanted.htm

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im10ashus

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:33 AM
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3. Good point. eom

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sinkingfeeling

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:13 AM
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2. I was thinking about this very thing this morning. The GOP seems reduced

to using the same cliches they used 40 years ago. "Cut and run" (We could not afford to �cut and run,� it was argued. �The Viet Cong would carry out an awful blood-letting.� Supporters of the war expected no honest answer when they asked �How can we get out?�). "The US will stand down when the Iraqis stand up" (�Vietnamization�). "Stay the course" (Vietnam was marked by a refusal to reconsider the war�s �strategic� rationale. By 1965 things had begun going badly for U.S. military operations. By the end of March 1968, public opinion was turning against the war and Johnson chose not to run for re-election.).

Yet all we hear about is how the Democrats have no new ideas. All I hear from the GOP today is a repeat of the stuff of decades ago and we all know how well that turned out.

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kpete

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:36 AM
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4. I like visuals

These are good!

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im10ashus

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Thu Jun-22-06 09:41 AM
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5. Me too.

A picture really can be worth a thousand words.

:hi:

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