TPM Cafe Day 5: Looking back, and looking forward
Submitted by larry on September 2, 2005 - 11:06am.
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Today is General Clark's final day on TPM Cafe. Read General Clark's post on Looking back, and looking forward. Excerpt below:
I just wanted to write a quick note to thank you all for the stimulating and thought provoking discussion we've had over the last week, even as we've dealt with the tragedy unfolding before our eyes along the Gulf Coast.
...What I see right now is a failure of this Administration and Congressional Republicans to go beyond their rhetoric and live up to these values. There is no strategy for real success in Iraq. There is no commitment to support our returning troops through a new GI Bill. And when disaster struck the Gulf Coast, it took President Bush days to get off his mountain bike and back to the White House. The victims of this disaster are now suffering terribly from an obvious lack of planning to deal with this catastrophe
Read the rest here.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial_0566.xml
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington
The CEOs of oil companies should be saying something..anything. I haven't heard a word out of them. They have enjoyed tax breaks and record profits and it is their fault that this disaster took place because they insisted on contributing to global warming in the gulf, not to mention elsewhere, and they refused to strengthen those levies. It is their responsibility along with Bush. I hear everyone else wanting to contribute, but I hear nothing from the CEOs, who have gotten quadrupled profits. Not a peep out of the oil companies. As usual, big industry is AWOL during any disaster. I suppose Bush will use our tax dollars and make us bail out the insurance industry, since they are so pitifully poor.
General Clark,
Sir- Thank you for continuing to lead the charge.
Democratic Party:
HEAR THIS SOLDIER!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am grateful you were out in the heartland this week. I would have been immeasurably more grateful had you been in charge of the Oval Office, alas, perhaps this too will come to pass.
I hope to see the American people force several resignations from the Bush Administration in the weeks and months to come. Somewhere between incompetence, selfish intent, false pride, moral posturing & unabashed cronyism- it is apparent that the American people have been taken to the cleaners wholesale.
Even if we're able to acheive the goal of removing the top layer of this administration, it would be well to remember that Bush Cheney is only one head of the hydra.
You know much more about that than we do. But please know, We The People are at your service.
Still Blue in Pennsylvania- HollyC
Your time at TPM Cafe has been enlightening as well as delightful for many Americans. "Curious minds want to know..." Thank you sir.
Proud to be a Wesley Clark supporter!