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ultimately, to echo what ubertuber said above and shift it slightly, it seems to me that the democrats are in a nasty bind. no matter what they do, they will take a pounding-they cant do what folk for some reason imagine they could do, which is what has been referenced repeatedly above--and they are taking a pr hit for it of considerable proportions. what i still dont get is the reason why people expected anything different from the present arrangement than what is happening, no matter what you feel about it. so it seems to me that the democrats are really losing another image battle and this time i cant tell who set the terms of the battle itself. they cant do what is tactically beyond their reach and they also cant seem to get a coherent message out about what they are doing.
i think people are dreaming too much. i would much much prefer to see something coherent being done in/about iraq--but it aint happening. that the democrats do not have the numbers of come into town all cowboy in the white hat and change everything all at once is obvious--but they are NOT the party responsible for the chaos in iraq and i absolutely do not understand how it is that people hold them responsible for the chaos in a sense because they lack the numbers to do anything.
the problem lay in the political order itself. that iraq happened at all is in itself an index of a serious, deep problem with how this government operates and how the political system of which it is an expression functions. it amounts to a wholesale breakdown in even the most rudimentary oversight of a self-evidently incompetent administration.
the actual problem is this business of only being politically free one day every four years.
the other problem is the wholesale bankrupcy of the dominant ideology.
all that is happening demonstrates that there must be new alternatives posited, new organizations built, new and more pressure brought to bear on this political system itself.
failing that, you'll see more of the same dribbling along, the same non-entities engaging in the politics of stalemate and capitulation and meanwhile in iraq...and meanwhile in afghanistan...and meanwhile in colombia...
look at the reality this system is producing, that it is inflicting on populations around the bloody world. the democratic party is but an aspect of the problem, it is not itself the problem.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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