Another day, another pile of fresh, steaming bullshit

another load of bollocks...

Ronald Brownstein:

Partisan bickering won't end the war
How can Americans lecture Iraqis about 'reconciliation' when we can't even manage it at home?
September 12, 2007

Not for the first time, self-awareness was in short supply across Washington during this week's marathon congressional hearings on Iraq with Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

The one point that drew agreement from Republicans and Democrats alike was that Iraq's political leaders have too often failed to transcend their narrow sectarian interests to forge compromises in the national interest.

Pot, meet kettle.

Here in the U.S., the two parties are doing much the same thing. President Bush and congressional Democrats are each so determined to win the argument over Iraq that they have lost sight of their joint interest in finding a way forward that can attract broad and lasting support from a public disillusioned and dangerously polarized over the war. More than ever, the parties this week structured the debate as if it were an electoral campaign. Each asked Americans to ponder only the pieces of the picture most congenial to its arguments.

he's right about one thing - both parties are trying to gain political advantage, but it sure as hell ain't "AMERICANS" who are bickering... we, the people, are pretty remarkably unified in our opinions... we want the goddam war over, the killing to stop, and our troops to come home, and our esteemed congressfolks ain't listening to a single thing we say... they have ceased to even PRETEND they're listening, and that's nothing that a bogus spirit of "bipartisanship" is going to fix...

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