We need to stop letting them frame the debate!

[tavalon]

Bush's soon to be announced "plan" is not a "Surge", it is an "Inappropriate Escalation" or just an "Escalation" if you prefer. If you think one word is as good as another you are missing their intent here. They want Joe Sixpack to think of sex, hot manly sex complete with the money shot. They want him to think about it being longer, harder and deeper. Yep, they want us to think sex, not war. Just in case you think I'm out of my gourd, here's a link to an article that goes more in depth about this http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010407E.shtml

And here's some of the "Thrust" of the article:

Yet here is Tom Donnelly, an American Enterprise
Institute neocon, a co-chairman of the Project for a
New American Century, telling a reporter sagely that
the surge is in. "I think the debate is really coming
down to: Surge large. Surge small. Surge short. Surge
longer. I think the smart money would say that the
range of options is fairly narrow." (Donnelly, of
course, forgot: Surge out.) His colleague, Frederick
Kagan of AEI, the chief architect of the Surge Theory
for Iraq, has made it clear that the only kind of
surge that would work is a big, fat one.

Nearly pornographic in his fondling of the surge,
Kagan, another of the neocon crew of armchair
strategists and militarists, makes it clear that size
does matter. "Of all the 'surge' options out there,
short ones are the most dangerous," he wrote in the
Washington Post last week, adding lasciviously, "The
size of the surge matters as much as the length. … The
only 'surge' option that makes sense is both long and
large."

[msongs]

1. they do it because nobody stops them. maybe now

that some of the dems are in charge (while others are still aiding and abetting the repubs) we will have the microphone and media command so what we say will become the norm and the dems will be the go to people

or not.

here's hoping the dems know how to be the boss better than they were the opposition.

Msongs
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[tavalon]

3. But the thing is, we're doing it for them

How many threads have you read where we talk about surge this and surge that. They don't need to do it, we're doing it for them. We obediently line up and use their framing.

[madeline_con]

2. George Carlin had comments about that sort of thing....

citing "thrusts" and "pullouts" during other wars.