Benchmarks
Res Ipsa Locquitur
--“the facts speak for themselves.”
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--“the facts speak for themselves.”
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Senate byRichard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a fine and reasoned speech Monday night on the floor of the Senate. It offers an exceedingly clear argument for U.S. withdrawal from Iraqi hostilities. It should be read, and the WaPo reprinted a portion today in "Beyond Politics on Iraq."
How refreshing to know that even within the Republican party reside some clear thinkers.
It speaks for itself, and I offer the following two excerpts only as accompaniment to my cartoon choice:
"The possibility that the United States can set meaningful benchmarks that would provide an indication of impending success or failure is remote."
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"We have contemplated in great detail whether Iraqi success in achieving certain benchmarks should determine whether funding is approved or whether a withdrawal should commence. I would observe that none of this debate addresses our vital interests."
I submit that the only benchmarks this administration is concerned with meeting parallel those of the stalwart doggie at the park bench.
--Lisa
--Lisa
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posted by rangeragainstwar at 4:25 PM
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"I submit that the only benchmarks this administration is concerned with meeting parallel those of the stalwart doggie at the park bench."
Roger that.
Amen! Preach on!! That two-faced bunch of Corporate Controlled Republicrats up there in DC are interested in all of about 3 things: (1) their pocketbooks, (b) their buddies' (read "contributors") pocketbooks and (iii) gettin' re-elected so they can do it some more. Like you, when I hear something sensible comin' out of one of 'em's mouth I figger one of two things: (a) he/she is either on a fishin' expedition for more money or votes or (2) a blind squirrel *does* find a nut ever once in awhile.
..anon.
they really, and truly don't care. they will attempt in their shameless and cynical manner to explain it all away, deny any dissent or keep telling the same bald faced lies that have, and this is no excuse, worked so bloody well for the last six years. lugar is right to speak out, and he is a senator that i have respected for a long time. it's just that he doesn't get that these guys don't have a plan b. they never have. they have never understood one of the basic lessons of warcraft that has been taught since sun tsu:
the enemy always has a vote.
when the sweets and flowers and greeted as liberators degenerated into riots and looting in the streets of bagdhad during those first few critical days of occupation they had no answer, because they never asked those questions.
i have heard conservative writers who describe bush as "going all in" with the surge, and they are right up to a point. the thing that they miss with the gambling analogy is that bush resembles nothing less than the degenerate, compulsive gamblers that i used to see when i was working out of las vegas. the guys who would make the same play over and over without realizing that the house makes a comfortable living on a 2.5% edge. the guys who would bet the house on a draw, because they were ashamed to go home and tell their wives they had clucked off the car.
i used to love seeing them at the poker tables because they were so easily manipulated. show them a couple hands and they think that they have you figured, then wait. wait for the nuts and flash the same tells (you might have to go a little over the top on your performance because these cluckers don't pay close attention). then pull the trigger on them and watch the stunned look on their faces as their decent two pair dies a shameful death and hear them say
"nobody would have figured you for that straight."
right chump. nobody.
the bitch of it is that these idiots are gambling with lives. real flesh and blood lives. lives lost, lives forever changed by catestrophic injury. they have even upped the ante further by gambling things like our honor and reputation in the world, now they are shoving our most basic liberties (habeas corpus anyone?) into the center of the table without any collateral left to back their play.
the markers will always come due and the collector is always some guy named vito.
the only way to get them to stop is to close the game.
Oh, minstrel boy,
You really do tell it like it is.
Your gambling analogy could not be any more appropriate. GWB is a shameful, profligate gambler of other people's lives and fortune. He's bet the house, and lost.
"The bitch of it is that these idiots are gambling with lives. real flesh and blood lives. Lives lost, lives forever changed by catastrophic injury. They have even upped the ante further by gambling things like our honor and reputation in the world, now they are shoving our most basic liberties (habeas corpus anyone?) into the center of the table without any collateral left to back their play."
Eloquent. I could not have said it any better.
Lisa
anon,
(a) he/she is either on a fishin' expedition for more money or votes or (2) a blind squirrel *does* find a nut ever once in awhile.
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I'll take (a) & (2)! Whatever it takes to bring some truth up on the other side of the seesaw,
L.
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