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INdemo

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Sun Aug-27-06 09:22 AM
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Democrats split on timetable

Are the Democrats playing it safe or is this a more realistic approach?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/26/AR2006082600811.html

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XOKCowboy

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Sun Aug-27-06 09:34 AM
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1. I think Kos refutes it best....

Republicans (and their editorial allies in the press) are desperate to change the subject from Administration failures at every opportunity. If Democrats are united about presenting an alternative to the disaster known as "stay the course", it must indicate division, right?

So here's the deal, editors. Let's make it simple for you.

1. Stay the course is a failure that has led to civil war. Democrats are united in wanting a course correction.

2. There's no easy way for the egg to be put back, but never forget it was the fumble-prone President who dropped it.

3. Clean-up is messy, but necessary. Get the kids out of the kitchen who made the mess, and put the grownups back in charge, or the mess will never get cleaned up.

4. There are several plans being discussed, from Feingold's to Murtha's to the position statement by Dem leadership to the idea floated last week by Byman and Pollack (who at least acknowledge civil war). The public does not demand a finished product by November. They do demand serious work and effort on the task. That includes oversight, which this Congress has never implemented. And it includes accountability (Pollack forgot to include himself, by the way, although Rumsfeld's head seems to be first in line these days).

5. How we got there is vitally important to cover. It's not old news because it will affect how we deal with Iran. Unless we understand fully the mistakes made in Iraq, we will make them again.

Now how hard was that?

http://www.dailykos.com/

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Cassandra

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Sun Aug-27-06 09:38 AM
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2. Dkos has another take on this story.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/27/92232/9038

"Since they can't properly cover the civil war in Baghdad (too far, too expensive, too dangerous, too partisan), the media, always looking for a good conflict story, has been floating trial balloons on their fall narrative. It's still summer, pre-Labor Day, and the editors need something simple they can grasp, so they can explain the news to their publishers. The public, way ahead of the press and the publishers, need no such narrative as they have already created their own (failure of 2000-2006 governance). But conflict sells."

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