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Navy Pride said:Senator Joe Leiberman a prominent democrat rebuffs his party after returning from Iraq by saying real progress being made ...
Why doesn't the media ever print stories like this?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007611
BY JOE LIEBERMAN
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST
For the same reason stories like this dont get widely printed:
Representative Doug Bereuter, a 26-year member of the US House of Representatives from southeastern Nebraska, has sent a four-page letter to his constituents saying he has reconsidered his previous support for the US invasion of Iraq and concluded that the war was a disastrous mistake.
Bereuter’s letter was first reported August 18 by the Journal Star newspaper, which is published in the state capital of Lincoln, the largest city in Bereuter’s 1st Congressional District. The letter has added significance because Bereuter is vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, the panel responsible for reviewing the intelligence claims advanced by the Bush administration to justify the March 2003 invasion. The veteran Republican congressman is also a senior member of the House International Relations Committee.
Earlier this year, Bereuter announced that he would leave the House of Representatives as of August 31 to take the post of president of the Asia Foundation—a fact that undoubtedly helps account for his willingness to publicly break ranks with the Bush administration and the Republican Party on the war.
Its also funny you didnt get such a hard-on over this article from the New York Times on Nov 15th:
Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq
By Carl Hulse
The New York Times
Tuesday 15 November 2005
Washington - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year in securing the nation and for the Bush administration to lay out its strategy for ending the war.
The Senate is also scheduled to vote Tuesday on a compromise, announced Monday night, that would allow terror detainees some access to federal courts. The Senate had voted last week to prohibit those being held from challenging their detentions in federal court, despite a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary.
Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who is the author of the initial plan, said Monday that he had negotiated a compromise that would allow detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their designation as enemy combatants in federal courts and also allow automatic appeals of any convictions handed down by the military where detainees receive prison terms of 10 years or more or a death sentence.
The proposal on the Iraq war, from Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, and Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, would require the administration to provide extensive new quarterly reports to Congress on subjects like progress in bringing in other countries to help stabilize Iraq. The other appeals related to Iraq are nonbinding and express the position of the Senate.
The plan stops short of a competing Democratic proposal that moves toward establishing dates for a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq. But it is built upon the Democratic approach and makes it clear that senators of both parties are increasingly eager for Iraqis to take control of their country in coming months and open the door to removing American troops.
Now, what I have seen from this whole thread is Chief getting a boner of a democrat's opinion written as an editorial...now he has been there 4 times and he has a well formulated opinion based on direct observation...GREAT!
So other opinions and observations are presented...and greeted with typical party towing, right-wing lock-stepping dismissal complete with a flawless O Reilly rhetoric. So, proof is offered. No acknowledgement. I dont get you people who cant accept when proof is put right in front of you. Kerry...I will be the first to say, bad guy. No decency at all. Kennedy...really bad guy. Dont even need to elaborate.And just for kicks...Moore and Sheehan. (Thats more so navy doesnt pull a "well well...ummm, what about Sheehan/Moore/anyone else I might not have mentioned).
Now come on...you got to admit. Bush...idiot. Got us into war without thinking it through...and most likely lied about why we went. Rove...spiteful, vengeful power monger looking out for his business ties. Cheney...see description of Rove. O'Reilly hasnt had an original thought since he decided to become the republican mouth and Coulter is a frigid beyotch.
Our political system is messed up because of bipartisan politics and extremism on both the left and the right. Its sickening that this partisan rhetoric steeps into the depths of our voting philosophies...that it produces thougtlessness as seen in Chief and a total refusal to accept fact presented just because it came from the wrong messenger. You got champs who refuses to accept the validity of the war effort just because the instigator was on the wrong side of the political fence. Moral decisions have to blend with party colors and there is no need to think beyond a straight ticket ballot in these people. Its infuriating...tragic.