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MoveOn.org’s ad

Friday, September 28 at 2:00 PM

Jim Sickafoose of Wheat Ridge writes:

WHICH MOVEON MISTAKE?
MoveOn did make a very bad mistake in focusing negatively on General Petraeus. Colin Powell, a much-decorated general, re-established all too well the concept of obeying your Commander-in-Chief, in spite of that commander’s supreme mendacity, though Powell now has indicated remorse for that. It is extremely difficult for any military leader to place the U.S. Constitution and the well-being of the world above orders from above. Those are distant abstracts; military chain-of-command is not.
MoveOn made the same mistake Democrats are making, playing into Bush’s hands. Bush and Cheney are so glad that we lose focus on this. The president and Dick Cheney and their policy of pushing the fatal obsolesence of war, of “shock and awe,” bomb and kill, should be the issue. Until sanity prevails. And the concept of “progress” should have been laughed off the stage as rationale for “the surge.” We never lost a major battle in Vietnam. Khe Sanh was a stand-off and even the infamous Tet Offensive was a “victory” for us - we killed so many more of them than they killed of us or ARVN forces. In Vietnam, “progress” was our most important product, right up to the end.
Never has America, this sadly floundering republic, needed clarity so desperately. We are drowning in our excremental propaganda, and in this instance, MoveOn did not help.

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READER COMMENTS

It remains to be seen if MoveOn.org's ad helped or hurt the GOP. The focus is still on the Iraq war, which is a bona fide loser issue for any GOP presidential candidates, except for the outliers who admit that it was a tragic mistake. The GOP will do much better when they take the focus off the war and start fanning the flames of racial insecurity and intolerance, under the acceptable banner of 'illegal immigration'

Posted by on September 28, 2007 02:14 PM

And neither did you jimmy.

Posted by TIRED OF LYING LIBERALS on September 28, 2007 02:16 PM

We sane Americans are waiting for comdemnation of Herr Rush for calling our troops "phony" when they didn't follow the Bush marching orders when they saw firsthand that Bush is lying and took the steps necessary make public the obvious, as did the brave 6 soldiers serving in Iraq and writing an op-ed piece against the war. ( 2 have since died in combat)
Move on has been chastised by Congress for stating facts.
And only stating facts.
We're waiting, Congress.

Posted by STILL TIRED OF LYING CONS on September 28, 2007 06:04 PM

TIRED OF LYING LIBERALS on September 28, 2007 02:16 PM

"And neither did you jimmy."

Oh and the garbage you blather help the ReTHUGliCONS?

Posted by Keith and Hank sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G on September 28, 2007 08:28 PM

How do you liberals get so f---in stupid?

Posted by Keith on September 29, 2007 10:07 AM

Time we go after rush Limbaugh too for insulting the troops. That lying conservative puke called our brave military 'Phoney Soldiers". Limbaugh and pukes who agree with like him are PHONEY AMERICANS!

Posted by Rush is pus on October 1, 2007 06:58 AM