[antimedia] antimedia: Cowardice, thy name is....

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Cowardice, thy name is....
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   ....[1]Senator.

     The tide of Republican defections from President George W. Bush's
     camp swelled Saturday when two more US senators joined the chorus
     of critics of his Iraq policy, demanding change.
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     But while expressing sharp disagreement with the strategy of
     "surging" the number of US troops in Iraq, Senators Lamar Alexander
     of Tennessee and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire stopped short of
     backing legislation that would force the White House to begin a
     drawdown of US troops in Iraq.
     "It should be clear to the president that there needs to be a new
     strategy," said Alexander told The Los Angeles Times. "Our policy
     in Iraq is drifting."
     Gregg, who up to now had belonged to the camp of Iraq hardliners,
     said in an interview with the same newspaper that attempts to put
     down the Iraqi insurgency with higher numbers of US troops "don't
     seem to be making a lot of progress."
     It is vital to have "a clear blueprint for how we were going to
     draw down," he said.

   America has been through a lot. During the Revolutionary War, some
   Americans not only sided with the enemy, they actually fought with the
   enemy. In the Civil War, America was divided in half and hundreds of
   thousands were slaughtered before the war was over.
   In those times America was young and still finding her way. In the two
   World Wars America came into her own and grew into a world superpower.
   Now America appears to be on the verge of abandoning the fight when
   the world needs her the most.
   Appearances can be deceiving. All the present posturing may be nothing
   more than positioning for election runs. Of the Republican Senators
   who have "changed" only Voinovich and Gregg are not running for
   re-election, and Voinovich is one of the most unpredictable Senators
   "serving".
   The rest could be simply hedging their bets for their re-election
   bids, allowing themselves an out if things don't improve by September.
   In other words, this may be nothing more than typical electioneering
   from people for whom principled stands aren't even an afterthought.
   Politics sure is an ugly business, isn't it?
   Tags: [2]Senate [3]Iraq [4]politics [5]cowards

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070707/pl_afp/usiraqcongress
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/Senate
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   5. http://technorati.com/tag/cowards