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Aug 25th, 2006 at 6:29 pm by Susie

Right the fuck on.

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on 25 Aug 2006 at 7:57 pm1Erroll

That link revealed an amazing rant by Konopelli. When I tried to point out something similar [but in somewhat less than strident fashion] at places like Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars, of how Democrats such as Lamont, Webb, and Dean will practically twist themselves into knots in order to not set a timetable so the troops could be extricated from that hellhole as quickly as possible, the commenteres there were practically ready to have me tarred and feathered. I think the vast majority of Democrats are being seduced by the word redeployment. Redeployment is not the same thing as withdrawal. Admittedly, redeploying the troops would be a brilliant, politically crafted move by both parties, to show Americans that the troops have been removed from Iraq and placed, to use Murtha’s favorite term, over the horizon. But the loss of those boots on the ground would be replaced by a massive air war against any occurrences which the American military would deem suspicious in Iraq, thus wreaking more havoc and misery and destruction against the Iraqi people. Those troops should not be removed to Kuwait or Oman or Qatar, where even stationed there, the Iraqis would realize that they can then be sent back into Iraq at a moment’s notice, thus doing little, justifiably, to placate the fears of the Iraqi people.

I think that Konopelli may be right. Outside of Kucinich, I cannot think of another congressman, and certainly not a U.S. senator, who has reached the logical conclusion that those troops should be withdrawn, not redeployed, from that abattoir as quickly and as rapidly as possible. So much for our political leaders having learned the lessons of that so-called conflict in that far away but still relevant place called Vietnam.

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