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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
On the VF article, since I don't read VF myself I'm not going to suggest that a lot of other people. OTOH, one wonders whether the conventional wisdom about Rudy will change if the reporters covering the race internalize that piece.
On the next election -- and this may come as some shock to you -- we are fighting a war in Iraq, and it is going poorly. As a direct result, Republicans lost the House and Senate in the last election and President Bush's approval ratings are in the crapper.
Carry on.
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On the first, we'll just have to wait that out and see. Remember, the press has a vested unterest in seeing a Republican elected. They've had 8 wonderful, crazy news years out of W. Republicans mean more war on terror, which means more pretty colors of bombs going off, warnings of dire impending attacks and Wolf Blitzer and Sean Hannity sucking off retired generals. That shit sells.
On the Iraq war issue, I disagree. The fact is, nobody with their fingers on any of the levers gives a fuck about the soldiers over there. Those guys largely fall into a category of anonymous lower to middle class backgrounds and none of the people debating the war even discuss them, except to use their deaths for emotional effect every now and again. And all that posturing looks as scripted and vacant as it is. The average ambitious American is more interested in taxes and debacles like the mortgage lending nonsense going on. You care about the soldiers, and that's too your credit.
Most people only care about them in theory.
I loath what that ass has done in Iraq, but the situation, and the people in DC - and those running - offer no credible solution, and I stopped watching or caring months ago for exactly that reason. Churchill called the place an unholy quagmire early in the last century, and he was right. It's a hopeless futile mess that will never end.
If they institute a draft, then I'll care.
And run myself into bankruptcy paying for my son to study in New Zealand for high school and college.
I gave up having any faith in anything worthwhile coming out of DC a long time ago. We need to institute term limits. That's the only way.
