Your World teaser suggested Democrats want to "Cut & Run"
On the August 1 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto previewed an interview with Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) about a letter from House and Senate Democratic leaders urging President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year. As Cavuto spoke, the on-screen text read: "Cut & Run?"
As Media Matters for America has noted, many media outlets have uncritically repeated Republican claims that Democratic proposals to withdraw troops from Iraq amount to a "cut and run" strategy, while failing to note that recent polling indicates the majority of Americans favor the idea of troop withdrawal.
From the August 1 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: Well, key Democrats on Capitol Hill are renewing the call to get troops out of Iraq. Republicans say that they are waving the white flag of surrender. Or are Democrats just getting it right? Senator Dick Durbin, a prominent Democrat, is going to respond.
How about "the Republicans got it wrong." Let's start there and then we can move on.
Naaaah, we need to stay in Iraq for another ten or fifteen years. Things are getting better every day. The insurgency is in its last throes. Another ten years, fifteen max, Iraq will be a thriving democracy and the rest of the Middle East will soon follow.
Just remember, "Freedom!" "...Freedom!" "...Freedom!"
Everybody with me?
and it reflects the Repubs utter lack of creativity in dealing with problems. I wonder how the troops in Iraq like having their lives used as political footballs by the Repubs until November?
45 according to anti-war.com.
Hell yes.
Who cares what we call it? As long as we get out. We can't sustain a war in Iraq and still have a functional military, capable of dealing with other threats as they arrive. We simply do not have the manpower.
How's that working out for the republican war mongers?
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CUT and RUN means, CUT the deaths of our troops and let Iraq RUN their own country. Someone at the Republican Talking Points Orfice should think about it.
meant Office, not Orfice, but who cares.
which American College Dictionary defines as (among other things) "a vent," which would certainly have been dead on.
Meantime, I hope everyone is on Palast's mailing list and is listening to the Kennedy Interview regarding how big oil out-maneuvered the neocons after the two teamed up to get us into Iraq for - fatally unbeknownst to the neocons - opposite but equally criminal (as in war criminal) reasons and goals. Palast's synopsis is at [link to www.gregpalast.com] the Ring of Fire interview by Kennedy can be heard or downloaded at [link to www.gregpalast.com] and of course the full story is in Armed Madhouse...do a Google and see if you can find him reviewed there (it might be if you have an hour or so to wade around, but it isn't obvious). NPR's Alan Chartok is quoted on the back cover of the book, however.
Sorry in advance, but I'm going to post this in a couple of other places in the hope that people will spread the word about the interview and premise of the book.
i.e., reviewed by the mainstream media. Or even discussed.
Every progressive/liberal needs to ignore this phrase. It's a Republican talking point. Even wordplays like "stay and die" are a bad idea, for they imbue C&R with undeserved life.
Repeat after me: the Iraq War ended on May 1, 2003. Bush said so. Mission Accomplished. That means we are an OCCUPYING FORCE. Say it again. OCCUPYING FORCE. Invaders. Conquerors. Usurpers. The Republicans favoring the reemergence of COLONIALISM. The US embassy in Iraq has been compared to the VATICAN in scale, with a full military base and FAST FOOD joints. Does this sound like we are EVER going to leave Iraq to decide its own fate? Ask the government if it's committed to EVER letting Iraq self-govern or a policy of PERMANENT OCCUPATION. It’s not about the troops. It’s about a policy of OCCUPATION.
By defining the debate, we can control the debate.
All an occupying force has to do is state that their intentions are good. Then everyone's happy. Right?
There is no context in which an occupying force can be construed as positive, unless you are a fascist or harbor a conqueror's mentality, that to the victor belongs the spoils.
Fantagor iterates the crucial point. Conservatives have hijacked language to their great advantage. From naming a dictatorship bill PATRIOT to an environmental disaster Clear Skies, to Flip-Flop, which they performed with cheerleader precision at the RNC convention, their exclusivistic claim to perjorative sound-bites has put a chokehold on real debate. This point has to be hammered hard in our online circle. Iraq is occupation. Lebanon is occupation. Bush and Cheney are impeachable, Cheney immediately. 9-11 was an inside job. Elections since 2000 have been stolen. Conservative ideology itself rather than any individual personality is destroying America. Free-speech zones are totalitarian. Terabytes of server storage should be filled with language which serves individuality over nationalism, inclusion over exclusion, understanding over racism and civil liberties over fear.
Scary is what it is. It's what brought us the term sectarian violence. Call it what it is, a civil war, and there's genocide going on to.
Geez, ya know, going by Neo-Con definition what Hitler perpetrated during WWII against the Jews should be reclassified as Sectarian Violence. The Holocaust never happened, it was just sectarian violence.
Republican Pie Recipe
Ingredients Required:
Preparation Instructions:
Add dung, lies and 911 to a large bowl and get your wackos to stir it up real good. Then top with whipped cream and now you have a foul tasting treat with a hint of sugar.
The title suggest there should be an upgrade to the always appropriate slogan "cut and run." As adults, we should not be so taken in by this kind of suggestion: I am not sure what a "cut and run" is. Is it a person? Does a "cut and run" person have cooties or smell bad? I know a "cut and run"person is something like what happen to the word "Liberal." All of the sudden, as a "Liberal," I drink cool- aid and want by country taken over by terrorist and aliens, both out of country and outer space.
I know all this conjecture is not true; I am just wondering when we gave the opposition the unchallenged right to define who we, meaning Democrats and Liberals, are. At some point we have got to make the Republicans responsible for what they call us -- in the way our parent taught us about name calling -- just for the sake directing the moment to an adult level. Yes, come with what matters within issues, not within your kids class room.
Joseph