You can most commonly purchase it from your local cable TV company….

Shame too.

1. Warner didn’t wait for Gen. Petraeus because he just came back from Iraq. For Warner to say he wanted to wait would be met with the question of why he bothered to go on the trip;

2. This is not an “8 of 9 yards” situation; it’s a pregnancy — either you are or you aren’t.

Warner advocates a token gesture, which he knows will generate headlines that will overshadow his other comment that he would not support Democratic legislation championed by Levin that would call for Bush to bring troops home by a certain date.

A senior Democratic leadership is quoted at CNN:

“Will he [Warner] vote with us on anything? That is still the open and most important question,” the aide said. “A recommendation to the president is different than voting for binding legislative language compelling the president to act.”

Indeed. He may be fooling people here, but not in the Senate.

I do have a suggestion though, instead of withdrawing troops lets send politicians and bureaucrats to Iraq to job shadow the Iraqi lawmakers.

They might build some grit, they can hopefully improve the Iraqis tit for tat diplomacy corruption and if they’re out of the country they can’t do so much damage here.

Let me try: Something having to do with a Scottish koala?

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on August 23, 2007 at 6:30 PM

Actually it involved a wiener dog but lets not get into it.

Boy do I have a line for that… but it may not be appreciated so I’ll pass.

Maxx on August 23, 2007 at 6:17 PM

Let me try: Something having to do with a Scottish koala?

Pull out — but just a little

Boy do I have a line for that… but it may not be appreciated so I’ll pass.

Daily Kos is having a gay old time right now.

SoulGlo on August 23, 2007 at 5:52 PM

Only right now?

…as it is the policy seems premised on the absurd hope either that the country will deteriorate to the point where Maliki has no choice but to renounce his sectarianism and embrace the Sunnis to save it or the surge will cripple the jihadis and militias so entirely that the politicians on both sides will reconcile simply because they no longer have guns backing them up. Anyone here see either scenario in the offing?

Neither, and frankly I find the reading overall, both of current policy and of the NIE analysis, to be rather bizarrely constrictive and arbitrary – a strange exercise in thinking oneself into a corner. Politics in Iraq and elsewhere rarely comes down to all one or all the other. It’s not surprising that the attempt to reason from such an absurdity leads to absurdity. (Absurdity in, absurdity out.)

As for Warner, he’s been wobbling for a couple of years now. Something resembling his recommendation of a symbolic withdrawal may actually occur, but probably not on his terms.

Oh, sure, it may make a point, and it may cost only dozens or hundreds of lives.

What a point!

Hmmm … probably shouldn’t touch that one.

Hehehe. I was going to say, doesn’t Warner know that you should always use a condom?

I’ll be in my office…