Anti-Surge Protests Against McCain, Lieberman

[babylonsister]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/anti-surge-protests-against-mccain-lieberman/

January 5, 2007, 6:13 pm
Anti-Surge Protests Against McCain, Lieberman

By Sarah Wheaton

Don’t expect Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and anti-war activists to be kissing and making up anytime soon. Demonstrators were out in full force, despite the light sprinkle of rain, to protest his appearance at the American Enterprise Institute here in the nation’s capital. The self-styled Democrat-Independent joined Senator John McCain to speak about Iraq at the conservative think tank, and their call for more troops in Iraq was a foregone conclusion.

“Hey John, hey Joe, escalation has got to go!” and “John McCain, John McCain, escalation is insane!” were chanted pretty much constantly for about an hour by sign-waving activists with MoveOn.org, a grassroots group that leans left and generally aligns with Democrats, and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker group. On top of that, a choir of the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement was singing satires about their arch villain, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other hymns.

“This is kind of the devil’s den that didn’t get it,” said Tom Matzzie, the Washington director for MoveOn Political Action, referring to the think tank. “They’ve gotten it wrong every step of the way.”

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In words unlikely to endear him to the protesters outside, Mr. Lieberman declared that there was “an axis of evil with headquarters in Tehran.” Mr. Lieberman entered the “what-year-is-it debate” among foreign policy experts with his view that it’s the 1930’s and/or 1942.

In response to a question from the audience, Mr. McCain entered campaign mode, distancing himself from the current Iraq policy without descending into Bush-bashing. “I believed the initial invasion would be easy … and I believed we would be welcomed,” he acknowledged. The Republican senator from Arizona added, however, that he has also long believed that the war has been “mismanaged.” He reminded the audience that he has been calling for more troops for years. A few questioners tried to get Mr. McCain to elaborate on exactly who had mismanaged the war, but the senator hedged, saying that he didn’t want to “revisit” what mistakes were made and then added “the time to change generals had come.”

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[monarch]

1. Call them the surge sisters

Saw it on fdl.

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. This new 'surge" thing...

Can't anyone in the media ask Tony Snow what his definition of "surge" is, and if he says it means an increase, why doesn't he just call it an increase instead of trying to Snow us with new words for old concepts?

It's high time the press stopped regurgitating the pablum they're fed by the Republican party.