Stinky Inky News Flash: Dems Divided!

The Philadelphia Inquirer's headline yesterday at the very top of the front page was "Battle ahead as Democrat split on war plans," and the New York Times story that followed pertained to the congressional infighting of sorts while trying to figure out what to do about Bushco's gross mismanagement of the Iraq fiasco.

Not the fact that we wrongly arrested the son of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim who is the president of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a group we are supposed to be supporting, and then apologized for the screwup shortly afterwards.

Or the fact that the latest effort to achieving something like progress in Iraq via the embedding strategy of Gen. David Petraeus means that our troops will be in this mess for the "long haul" regardless of what any politician has to say about it.

Or the fact that the Canadian Supreme Court, to its great credit, stuck down the concept of indefinite detentions of foreign terrorism suspects while courts review their deportation orders (that was only good enough for the headline on page 2).

And by the way, this quote from Virginia Senator Jim Webb in the Times story hit the nail on the head again (Webb has done nothing but impress me throughout his campaign and his brief amount of time so far in the Senate - sorry I don't have a link, but it's Times content and not the Inquirer...I'll keep looking):

"The true issue here is the federal system," Webb said, "the notion of accountability of the executive branch to Congress for not having conducted itself properly in the diplomatic arena."

Of course, that was buried in the middle of the story, along with the note that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) used a conference call to "taunt Democrats for failing to agree on a means for winding down the war."

(Oh, but didn't Broderius Ignoramus tell us a few weeks ago that McConnell and Harry Reid had "a warm relationship of personal trust" or some such nonsense?)

I have a message for McConnell; find some names of family members and friends of our service people from this link and ask these grieving individuals if they thought your "taunts" were amusing in any way whatsoever (and given this disgusting tactic from McConnell, do you even have to ask whether or not he served?).