Holding the troops hostage

i haven't heard it expressed more clearly...

krugman...

There are two ways to describe the confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that it’s a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders — the troops — if his demands aren’t met.

if the democrats were looking for a frame to put around this nightmarish standoff, they could do no better than to adopt the "hostage" meme...

(thanks to atrios...)

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