Looking to the Future in a Rear-View Mirror?
So much for the Democrats claims of a "new direction"... particularly with regard to the war in Iraq. It seems everything old is new again...
[George] McGovern to Meet With Congress on War
If the Dems are looking to a politician whose peacenik policies were resoundingly rejected by the American people thirty-four years ago for answers on the future of Iraq, they're really starved for new ideas.
From Wikipedia: "In the 1972 election, McGovern ran on a platform that advocated unilateral withdrawal from the Vietnam War in exchange for the return of American prisoners of war [White p. 122] and amnesty for draft evaders who had left the country [White p. 360], an "anti-war" platform that was presaged, in 1970, by McGovern's sponsorship of the McGovern-Hatfield amendment, seeking to end U.S. participation in the war by Congressional action."
Too bad Harry Truman is dead...
[George] McGovern to Meet With Congress on War
If the Dems are looking to a politician whose peacenik policies were resoundingly rejected by the American people thirty-four years ago for answers on the future of Iraq, they're really starved for new ideas.
From Wikipedia: "In the 1972 election, McGovern ran on a platform that advocated unilateral withdrawal from the Vietnam War in exchange for the return of American prisoners of war [White p. 122] and amnesty for draft evaders who had left the country [White p. 360], an "anti-war" platform that was presaged, in 1970, by McGovern's sponsorship of the McGovern-Hatfield amendment, seeking to end U.S. participation in the war by Congressional action."
Too bad Harry Truman is dead...
posted by The Umpire at 8:23 AM
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