Because, you know, we can only manage one giant money pit at a time.
Updates from my previous posts, in case you’re still keeping score:
Sigh.
United States is no help to Iraqi women
A new poll of leaders of Iraqi women’s-rights groups finds that women were treated better and their civil rights were more secure under deposed President Saddam Hussein than under the faltering and increasingly sectarian U.S.-installed government.
The time has come to open the debate on Iraq again. How?
With 218 signatures on a petition called House Resolution 543, regular business in the House of Representatives must stop and a 17 hour debate on the Iraq war must immediately begin. The debate will require that Congress consider and vote on all amendments offered as alternatives to the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq.
What can you do? Call your congressperson and urge him/her to sign HR 543. There are 98 signatures so far, so we’re almost halfway there already. (Deb, your rep already signed. Yay!) I’m calling Susan Davis today, and if you know me you know how much that means.
From the most recent Onion:
Donald Rumsfeld is under pressure to resign, first by a cadre of retired generals, now by Senior Democrats for his handling of the war. What do you think?
Danielle Bennet,
Daycare Provider
“As a daycare provider, I sympathize with Rumsfeld. 2,500 kids die on your watch and suddenly you’re not qualified to do your job?”
You know, turning swords into plowshares is somehow always timely.
