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bush choices

They are all false ones.

An interesting Doonesbury today prompted me to talk about it here. Debates over false choices are the only ones offered by bush.

Two faces of the same failure.

"Stay the course or cut and run?"

"Are you with us or against us?"

"Do you prefer war in Iraq or a mushroom cloud over New York?"

"Would you rather fight terrorists in Iraq or on our own shores?"

These are, of course, the ones brought up in the strip, but I'm sure you can think of many more. The worst being the hunt for Osama in Afghanistan somehow coalescing with the sudden "need" to start a war with Iraq. Seemed to take me, at least, by surprise, and I couldn't decide in the "heat of the moment" whether it was really necessary or not. And the funds were kinda tied together, so voting against the Iraq portion of funding would only tie up funds to the Afghanistan portion - and we didn't really know what those needs would be, so rather than tie up any, we went for it all.

Bad mistake. That is what has gotten so many Dems (and a few Repubs) into the blame game of voting for then against the war. It was too quick upon us to vote against our troops, and not enough time to find out the lies we didn't see at the time.

Now we're stuck.

And having a hell of a time getting un-stuck!

Maybe this November we can get enough people changed over to start serious attempts at finding a real solution.

posted by DadEO @ 6:05 PM