CITIZEN ALERT v1.147
WHAT IRAQ STUDY GROUP?
Everyone is counting down to Wednesday when the President is set to explain to the everyone that he really doesn't care what anyone thinks, and sets out to send MORE troops to Iraq. Pelosi and the DEMS are fighting back this week with their plans to clamp down on the spending and try to wrest control of the war from the President.
It's gonna be an uphill battle since the military is the President's territory, so look for the DEMs to fall into another neocon voting trap. The DEMS can deny the funding for the additional troops, but I could easily see the President sending the troops anyway and then it's the DEMS not supporting the troops again if they don't cough up the money. REPUB playbook.
On a more surreal note, California is hearing that universal health care may be on its way. Where are they hearing this from? Arnold Schwarzenegger!! Man, did this guy do an about face. Geez, if the REPUBS give us uni health care before the DEMS do, I'm going to be a little disappointed. Boxer needs to watch her back.
Also, just to throw one more log on the fire, I was reading a couple of interesting articles today - one on Saddam's execution that my drummer Bryan sent me, and one on the decline of executions in this country in the past decade.
I was just swapping comments with a CA reader on this the other day, and as the article was saying, I too think that Saddam's execution will do more to stir up violence than easy it. Our debate was who was really to blame for the execution. I blamed the U.S. because the chef can't blame the boiling water for killing the lobster, you know.
And I know Saddam was an evil guy, but does anyone else find it creepy that he was sent to his death by a trial and execution controlled by an imperialistic power, jeered on by a rival sect, supposed to die with a couple of other guys - although I don't think they ended up showing them or maybe they didn't execute them that day, and also that they had to rush the execution in on a weekend because of a religous holiday. Remind you of something? YIKES! Can we stop turning these guys into martyrs right and left?
It's gonna be an uphill battle since the military is the President's territory, so look for the DEMs to fall into another neocon voting trap. The DEMS can deny the funding for the additional troops, but I could easily see the President sending the troops anyway and then it's the DEMS not supporting the troops again if they don't cough up the money. REPUB playbook.
On a more surreal note, California is hearing that universal health care may be on its way. Where are they hearing this from? Arnold Schwarzenegger!! Man, did this guy do an about face. Geez, if the REPUBS give us uni health care before the DEMS do, I'm going to be a little disappointed. Boxer needs to watch her back.
Also, just to throw one more log on the fire, I was reading a couple of interesting articles today - one on Saddam's execution that my drummer Bryan sent me, and one on the decline of executions in this country in the past decade.
I was just swapping comments with a CA reader on this the other day, and as the article was saying, I too think that Saddam's execution will do more to stir up violence than easy it. Our debate was who was really to blame for the execution. I blamed the U.S. because the chef can't blame the boiling water for killing the lobster, you know.
And I know Saddam was an evil guy, but does anyone else find it creepy that he was sent to his death by a trial and execution controlled by an imperialistic power, jeered on by a rival sect, supposed to die with a couple of other guys - although I don't think they ended up showing them or maybe they didn't execute them that day, and also that they had to rush the execution in on a weekend because of a religous holiday. Remind you of something? YIKES! Can we stop turning these guys into martyrs right and left?
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