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06/10/07 @ 04:38:18 PM MDT
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Mark Udall's justification for voting to give President Bush his next phase of the Iraq War was, imho, way off the mark. He may think he's given our troops the support and bullets to kill the enemy, but the true failure of this excercise was that it allowed Bush to delay any changes to his Iraq Victory Party. And it forced Dems to both defend Bush's failed policy for him(!) and defend themselves against an angry left electorate that put them in the majority just last November. How soon they forget.
The massive failure is not in funding. George Bush has gotten every dollar he's ever wanted for Iraq. Yet our troops still lack the finest body armor. They still lack the MRAP mine resistant vehicles. They still lack the best treatment when they get home; they're lucky if they get any. Did Mark Udall, a man who wants to represent Colorado as our next senator, think his vote would magically compel George Bush to actually give a shit about anything but his way out of this mess he himself created? |
| Zappatero :: Memo to Mark: It's the mission, stupid! |
 Did Mark Udall think any one of the hundreds of billions of dollars would prevent our guys from being trapped under hundreds of tons of cement in downtown Baghdad today? It's the mission that failed, not the money.
Udall got hammered for his vote with the prez. He fell for Republicans' rhetoric as if anyone would leave our troops in harm's way. He fell for the false hope that paying for a failed policy still allows you to condemn it when you feel like it. Republicans will allow no such thing. They just showed you what they think of your thoughtfulness and bipartisanship. That's a lose-lose-lose in my book.
I hope our next senator from Colorado is able to figure this stuff out better than he seems to now. Time's running out - in more ways than one. (Crossposted at PeakDems)
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