rssRuss Feingold: Voice of Progressive Afghanistan War Criticism
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 3:45 pm
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As Jeremy Scahill notes in his excellent interview of Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Feingold is pretty much the only man on Capitol Hill willing to take on the Obama administration’s Afghanistan war policy. Really, read the whole thing, but here’s a bit that Feingold says about how he’s pressed both Richard Holbrooke and Adm. Michael Mullen on lacunae in either strategy or resources:
“This is something I’ve been trying to hammer away at,” Feingold tells The Nation. “They admitted that it’s a problem, but where’s the follow-up? This administration is almost whistling past the graveyard on this issue.” Feingold added, “How is it that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our special envoy to this region both agree that this could be a problem and that it is not talked about as a serious mistake if we’re going to keep increasing troops and increase that effect? This is, in my view, the central flaw in what is otherwise a policy that is better than the Bush administration’s. This is the central flaw in the thinking of the administration on this issue, and it needs to be pursued.”
Holbrooke, recall, answered Feingold that “I am only sure that we are aware of the problem.”
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Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 9:05 pm
The only thing Senator Feingold needs to do is demand Obama produce his original Birth Certificate. No “wise latina” until we see the BC.
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 2:06 am
Birth certificate was produced a long time ago. Maybe somebody needs an enema to clear his head.
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 5:35 am
From the linked article: “Are we sure that when we…get up to a level of 70,000 troops, are we sure that that isn't making the situation in Pakistan potentially worse?” Holbrooke replied that the troop buildup “could end up creating a pressure in Pakistan which would add to the instability.”
“…First as tragedy, second as farce.”
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 5:56 am
Since when is a COLB a Birth Certificate. Quit drinking Obama's enema kool-aid!
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Finally a voice of reason that is willing to speak out in government. Why do we continue to waist lives and resources fighting? It is far better to secure our country. This is where we failed in 9/11. We failed and are still failing to take a measured approach to terrorism vs. playing into their hands.
Our money and our men and women can be use to bring far better results in our own country. Obama is no better than Bush on this issue.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
Since long before your delusional fugue state began. If you weren't a victim of Obama Derangement Syndrome, like so many other wingdings, you would have come to terms with the truth a long time ago. Now it's just sad.
Obama was born in Hawaii and is legally the president of the United States. Certificates of Live Birth or Live Birth Certificates of or Birth Certificates aren't the real problem. The mental health of several generations of racists and bigots are right now being profoundly challenged, and clinging to this twisted string of false logic is your coping mechanism. Conservatism failed you, libertarianism is a joke that doesn't work, and you are just having a hard time admitting you are wrong. You and your birther buddies are having such a hard time admitting that you are wrong that you are going further and further out on a limb to justify being wrong. You are so far out on a limb you can't make the leap from birth certificate baloney to just admitting you hate the guy, which would at least be honest and straightforward.
It is also the first step in all the twelve step based programs to admit frankly that you have a problem.
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Comment posted April 6, 2011 @ 8:57 am
As many right wing bloggers have pointed out, the issue is both factually and politically irrelevant. The GOP should be focused on more substantial issues (if it has any), and Obama’s mother was a citizen who’s residence around the time would make Obama a citizen regardless of where he was born. Case closed. Trump fails.
Comment posted April 6, 2011 @ 9:00 am
I was born a couple of years after Obama and I didn’t get an SSN number until two years later. I think it was common for things to get messed up or neglected in that era.
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