First, the war czar scandal, if you like to call it a scandal(we all know the Bush administration has had enough of the 's word'). President Bush has asked for the past two months for a 'war czar,' or, as the exceedingly long title puts it, "Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan," who would brief the president on the sister wars and hold gravitas over the Pentagon, is quite a stupid idea. First of all, there are just too many people advising on the subject of the Wars on Terror, such as the National Security Advisor, the Joint Chiefs, and the director of CENTCOM, that a war czar isn't necessary. Second, this decision on a war czar has to go to the Senate, based on the fact that Mr. Bush has nominated 3-star Lieutenant General Douglas Lute was nominated. I'm surprised twofold: primarily that the Bush Administration actually nominated someone who is not one of the Bush cronies, and secondarily that they didn't know the Senate rules, that the Senate has to confirm any new job of a three-star or above general, which will make it, as Sen. Trent Lott said about the Iraq War Funding Bill, "Dead on arrival." Finally, there is absolutely no way of spinning this: “Even the spinning champion[White House press secretary Tony Snow]…could not spin the subject of a war czar," said MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on the subject of Tony Snow trying to approve of this at today's White House press briefing.
Secondly, there is the subject of the War in Iraq itself. With two regulations on the war being rejected in the Senate just today, three in the past two months, when will the Senate understand that people are dying there? When will the Senate understand that our young men and women, some under 20 years old, will return home with prosthetics, and some will return home with Post-partum Depression Syndrome, if not some 20-year olds and teenagers returning from Iraq and Fallujah in body bags?! When will the Senate understand that Iraq will not break into civil war if we leave; it is already in civil war. Just today, in the Green Zone, a mortar bomb exploded, killing a few while injuring dozens. This is the Green Zone-which is supposed to be safe! And yet neither the Democratic nor the Republican Parties will not come to a happy medium to solve such a macabre and morally backwards subject!
Finally, staying on the topic of morally backwards, the GOP debate was last night on the Faux News Channel. Republican candidates, along with Libertarian Candidate Rep. Ron Paul(TX), debated on several topics, including abortion. Many GOP candidates called themselves flip-flops(and what a time to be talking about summer footwear) in the debate, one of a possible six leading up to the primaries, and rightfully so; many have changed their stance on abortion, such as Mitt Romney, while others have quasi-changed it, such as former New York City mayor Rudy Guliani. This is growing worse than John Kerry's "I voted for it...before I voted against it" speech on Iraq; these are Republican candidates, and front-runner Republican candidates at that, having to change their opinion-on a Republican-spawned, Karl Rove "wedge issue!" The hilarity of this is overwhelming.
Well, there you have it. A GOP in shambles, with Presidents Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt rolling in their graves.
"Patriotism means to stand by your country. It does not mean to stand by your President."
-President Theodore Roosevelt(R-NY)
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