Well, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the Democrats couldn’t keep the promises that they made during the last mid term campaigns. There have been several news stories of how the promises just haven’t been met, but now comes the Democratic Senate whip, Dick Durbin stating that the goal of immediate withdrawal is “unrealistic”. Read the article here.
Well, well. Isn’t this the point that so many people were making during the campaigns? But, the Democrats just kept saying “Put me in office, and we’ll end this war immediately”. Even Durbin was spouting off that we needed an immediate withdrawl. Apparently, he now sees how wrong he and the others were.
Part of the article states
Durbin conceded to the Post that Democrats, with a slim majority in the Senate, won’t be able to placate calls from liberal Democrats who want a specific end date to the war and a funding cut off.
Major troop withdrawal must be done gradually, Durbin said.
“We also understand that just leaving cold turkey, with everything gone, could have the whole region descend into chaos,” Durbin told the Post.
Isn’t this just the opposite of what was promised. The first line above says it all
“Durbin conceded to the Post that Democrats, with a slim majority in the Senate, won’t be able to placate calls from liberal Democrats who want a specific end date to the war and a funding cut off.”.
It seems as though the campaign promises were just a ploy to “placate calls from liberal Democrats…”.
One of the amazing things to me is that this article appears at “earthtimes.org”. I did a quick look at ABC and MSNBC and didn’t see any mention of this article there.
When are we going to learn?
