Iraq – Page 14 – Hank Kalet

A majority of one

President George W. Bush is thwarting the will of the American people. His promised veto of a war funding bill that includes a timeline for pulling troops from Iraq flies in the face of what the American people thought they were voting for in November and what the polls say voters want.

I think Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is running for president, summed it up nicely (from Talking Points Memo):

“We are one signature away from ending the Iraq War. President Bush must listen to the will of the American people and sign this bill so that our troops can come home.”

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The failure of bigfoot journalism

I didn’t get a chance to see the Moyers program on the press’ abject failure in the leadup to the Iraq war, but the press critic David Sirota offers a summary and spot-on critique of Washington journailsm’s failings here.

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Dispatches: Speaking out against a lost war

Dispatches is up and ready for a read. It is on the benefits of protesting agains the war.

(This, by the way, will be the 1,000th post since we moved the blog to Blogger last summer. Not sure if that is champaigne-worthy. Maybe a nice cup of coffee, though.)

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Jon Stewart for president?

Jon Stewart ppoves once and for all that John McCain should not be taken seriously.

Watch this clip from last night’s Daily Show:

Part 1:

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/syndicated_player/index.jhtml

Part 2:

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/syndicated_player/index.jhtml

McCain just doesn’t get it when it comes to Iraq and, I fear, he never will.

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Suffering succotash

Laura Bush on the Today Show on NBC: “(N)o one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch” news from Iraq.

Huh?

Except for the thousands upon thousands of Iraqi families who have lost loved ones, or the soldiers who have come back with a variety of ailments from Iraq and Afghanistan to a broken veterans’ health care system (broken by the Bush administration’s neglect), or perhaps the families of those killed in war. I could go on.

Dan Froomkin, on his indispensable blog, White House Watch, asks:

Was the first lady actually looking for sympathy?

To call attention — even when prompted by an interviewer — to the first family’s supposed suffering when American troops are losing their lives and American families are losing their loved ones in a war of choice doesn’t strike me as appropriate.

That’s especially the case considering that there have been some concerns raised in the media before about whether the war is affecting Bush as emotionally as perhaps it should.

God knows, I wish I slept as well as he says he does.

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