On ABCNews last night, as on all the major channels, they showed the Peter Pace “Peace will come when the Iraqis start to love their children more than they hate each other” quote. Then on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, they showed it again, then cut to Stewart giving one of those faces like he just swallowed a lemon, as if to say, “A general made that up?” This morning, while reading Tom Friedman’s “From Beirut to Jerusalem” (published in 1989, p. 230 of the paperback edition), I came across a passage about the civil war in Lebanon in February 1984, when an American psychologist, asked when there will be peace in Lebanon, was quoted as saying, “When the Lebanese start to love their children more than they hate each other.”

Well, at least Pace is trying to read up on the people he’s shooting at … I guess that’s a good thing.

Really late catching up with you, & EPU’d to boot
(power outage this afternoon/eve)

You should be able to find that footage you want at C-Span, amidst film of the whole committee hearing today.

This might at least force a few Senate Dems to clarify their positions on the war in public.

Are they for it?
Are they for it, but don’t like it’s implementation?
Are they against it?

What are they except lyin’ lawyer corporate-fed politicians?

If the Democratic party doesn’t hash out this issue then we’re gonna lose in ‘08 – PERIOD. It’ll be the same divisive situation we had with Kerry (for) v. Dean (against).

Of course, fixing the electronic voting system is primary. Without that it won’t matter where anybody stands…the Repubs will stand over us all.

Geez, why did the Bushites bring all this nonsense on us? I mean, if they’d just kept funding moderate-talkin’ Repubs the old-fashioned way they’d win some seats here and there. What exactly did they get from this particular Dubya administration they couldn’t have gotten any other way? Was it a multi-trillion dollar theft perhaps? Heh.
Was it the hope of perpetual political power without accountability? Perhaps.
Oh, I know, it was so W could get some revenge on Saddam for trying to take out Poppy.

BTW, why *is* George H W Bush nicknamed “Poppy”? Could it have something to do with running opium through the CIA? Just wonderin’.

Uh oh, gotta run. I see the snark patrol coming.

NADA

NOTHING

I want to see a Dem (or even a Rep) Senator stand up and shout “YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH!!” I want to see someone – ANYONE – have the courage to toss Rumsfeld, Alito, and any other smirking, smug little fascist Bush sends to the Hill to do his bidding, right out of the hearing on his ass. How much longer are we going to put up with this dog and pony show?

nice..

somebody said they saw part of the exchange on msnbc…

hth
:-)

I want to see her entire session with rummy