Another good post by Cenk Uygur The Democrat's Plantation Mentality. "On what planet does an extra 30,000 American troops get the Shiites and the Sunnis to stop hating each other? How many times do we have to tell these people that Iraq needs a POLITICAL SOLUTION, not a military one?" Read the article for what Reid should have said in response to the proposal.
Laura Bush commented that the media only reports the bad news from Iraq and that lots of good things are happening. When asked for examples she only listed that we're building schools. Daily Kos has the facts about that, as reported in the LA Times. "But today, across the country, campuses are being shuttered, students and teachers driven from their classrooms and parents left to worry that a generation of traumatized children will go without education. Teachers tell of students kidnapped on their way to school, mortar rounds landing on or near campuses and educators shot in front of children."
Maybe schools have yet to be covered in Bush's 45 minute lessons on Iraq.
In the mean time the AP reports that Some Gitmo detainees freed elsewhere. 360 detainees were released and the AP has been able to track about 245 of them, 205 of them have been released or cleared of charges. This is a story that's easily manipulated. One view is just because they are free doesn't mean they aren't dangerous, and another is that we arrested innocent people and made enemies. In fact the AP story says: "Some former detainees say they never intended to harm the United States and are bitter." One of the lawyers said just the fact of their release proves Rumsfeld's characterization of them as "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth." The rule of law in this country says people are innocent until proven guilty, Guantanamo seems to skirt that law too.
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