Symbol of a timid Congress
Salon
by US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)
02/02/07
Congress is gearing up for a big Iraq debate next week. The Senate will take up the John Warner-Carl Levin resolution, which some are portraying as an important, symbolic rebuke of the president’s Iraq policy. Symbols can be powerful, but only if they have substance behind them. Read the fine print of the resolution itself, and you will find that it is not a rebuke at all. In parts, it reads like a reauthorization of the war, rejecting troop redeployment and specifically authorizing ‘vigorous operations’ in part of Iraq. This resolution isn’t a symbolic rebuke of the president; instead it symbolizes a Congress that is too timid to challenge the president’s failed Iraq policy.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/02/feingold/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold
by US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)
02/02/07
Congress is gearing up for a big Iraq debate next week. The Senate will take up the John Warner-Carl Levin resolution, which some are portraying as an important, symbolic rebuke of the president’s Iraq policy. Symbols can be powerful, but only if they have substance behind them. Read the fine print of the resolution itself, and you will find that it is not a rebuke at all. In parts, it reads like a reauthorization of the war, rejecting troop redeployment and specifically authorizing ‘vigorous operations’ in part of Iraq. This resolution isn’t a symbolic rebuke of the president; instead it symbolizes a Congress that is too timid to challenge the president’s failed Iraq policy.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/02/feingold/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold
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