Dems miss obvious response to "cut & run": smash & grab

[yurbud]

I am always amazed at how circumspect the Democrats are about impugning the motives of their GOP opponents, when those on the other side call them traitors and stop just short of forming a lynch mob.

Their response to "cut and run" is a sad case in point.

The correct response is to tell the truth. Cutting & running is indeed bad if you accept that we mistakenly undertook a misguided but noble mission. The American people and our troops may have done so, but the Bush administration did not.

For them, this looked like a simple smash and grab robbery. They wanted to give control of Saddam's oil to their friends, so they could decide how much flows and collect the profits when it does, as Greg Palast, Naomi Klein, Antonia Juhasz, and others have documented. They used our good reputation in the world, our tax dollars, and our troops as the brick to smash the window, and we don't even get a cut of the loot, or a break at the gas pump as thanks.

We are treated like patsies while Bush's friends at the oil companies, defense contractors, Bechtel, and Halliburton divide the spoils.


Those are not conspiracy theories but the ugly, bald-faced facts.

When you catch a smash and grab thief in the act, you don't figure out how to make him more comfortable in the jewelry store, you wrestle him to the ground and sit on him until the cops show up.

If Democrats continue to talk as if the war is just a noble adventure gone wrong, not only will they continue to lose, but they will look more and more like willing accomplices, trying to stall the cops while the rest of the gang gets away.

And what the GOP is taking is not just Iraq, but our democracy.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

1. I like it. Good use of it could be made in a debate. nt.

[yurbud]

2. thanks

[MADem]

3. Is that a cousin of shoot and loot?

Shoot up Iraq, loot their oil? And the Treasury, while they're at it?

[Jensen]

4. I like it and it makes sense...I hope DEM used it!

Smash and Grab discribes the GOP to a tee!:argh:

[blogslut]

5. That's always been my pet name for Junior

President Smash and Grab.

:)

[yurbud]

8. Yep--Papa Bush is the smooth con man that you hope to see again

after he robs you.

Baby Bush is his retarded son who beats you with a two by four, steals your wallet, then comes back a couple of hours later and tries to borrow some money like nothing happened.

[pnwmom]

6. Great post. Smash and grab. I like it.

I was thinking of calling them raiders and crusaders, but your phrase is catchier.

:hi:

[yurbud]

9. crusaders gives them credit for being idealistic at the core, which they

are not.

[annabanana]

7. good one. . . . smash & grab

is exactly what this thuggish crowd does everywhere it goes.

Our treasury AND Iraq...

[yurbud]

10. vote this up so it stays up long enough for some Dem staffer to see