European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page is opinion gop defectors a but Iraq is dems fight u in i Huntington this is the Start of a critical stretch on with the White House looking to run out the clock until Congress takes its summer and republicans struggling to split the Iraq War baby moving away from the presidents Stayt recourse stubbornness while not embracing troop with recent Days have brought a Continua Tion of the oops slow bleed of senators join ing the reality based with Judd Gregg and Lamar Alexander joining Dick George John Warner and Pete Domenici in calling for a change of course on the the Parade is said Alex we Hope the president will get out in front of but before we order up the confetti and marching its important to remember that none of the aforementioned re publicans has said he will Back legislation with a binding timetable for bringing the troops so while we Welcome any one who expresses second thoughts about continuing to follow the madness of the Iraq we need to be brutally Clear that Good words Are no longer Good All the hand ring ing and expressions of deep concern in the world will not Stop this these senators need to match their rhetoric with action and put their votes where their Mouths to paraphrase Matthew by their be shall know one could argue that a number of the gop including Domenici and Are up for and Are therefore looking for political cover voicing concerns about the War now to establish a paper Trail come election would allow them to show they distanced themselves from the War All the Way Back in and no matter How Many republicans abandon the president on it is democrats who must seize this moment and take tace Lead in bringing our troops they simply cannot wait for a three de cad Slater sequel to the famed March Down Pennsylvania Avenue taken by the Wise old men of the gop to convince Rich Ard Nixon that the endgame had because As bad As Nixon George Bush is infinitely so while Republican defectors from Bush War policy need to show there serious with their democrats need to show there serious by giving the Senate a Bill to vote on that would actually end the at the the democratic plan is to introduce a series of amendments to the defense authorization Bill that will Force Senate republicans to either turn away from the White House or stay aboard an billion month runaway train that has left the tracks and is head ing off the Edge of a so these proposals look like a mixed bag and run the risk of taking the focus off where it belongs pushing a Concrete plan that includes binding Start and end dates for for Hillary Clinton is plan Ning to team with Robert Byrd to Intro Duce a proposal that would revoke the authority to wage War on Iraq that Congress gave the president in Call it opera Tion do Over perfect for politicians looking to rewrite the the Ameri can Public and our troops in the Field Are entitled to a new debate about this said Clinton and Byrd in a letter to demo cratic they Arent entitled to a new debate there entitled to a new poli the american people have had plenty of debate on the and they have Cho sen they want us out of one measure gaining traction is a bipartisan Bill proposed by Ken Salazar and Lamar Alexander that would make the recommendations of the Iraq study group the official policy of the govern but since it Only puts Forth a goal of withdrawing troops by the end of March 2008 without setting an actual the measure is less of a plan than a political Fig the political Power of Salazar amendment is its Ambi said John president of the Center for strategic and International its a Way to give political ambiguity and political cover Are the last tilings congressional democrats should be embracing unless they Are hoping to see their approval ratings fall even Are the republicans who Are turning away from the president serious about ending the War we wont find out unless democrats Are willing to step up to the plate and swing for the ending the War in Iraq is not going to be but it will be impossible unless democrats provide some real liberals logic let lies snowball in Durham Ann Coulter the new York times alone has mentioned the Scottsboro boys Case from the 1930s nearly 20 times since 2002 expanding the news part of newspaper just a so i think in entitled to spend at least one More week luxuriating in the Duke Lacrosse players total vindication and the exposure of a Southern Liberal prosecutor As a corrupt Twenty years disbarred Duke prosecutor Mike Nifong would have been time magazines Man of the vanity fair would have photo graphed him sitting in a porsche under the headline speaking truth to one Hundred years he would have been Lynching innocent Black Southern liberals have stayed the same Only their Vic Tims have to watch the Complete destruction of this foolish and evil Michael Nifong de spite the mainstream medias Best efforts to portray him As a modern Day Atticus Finch As great a moment As the annihilation of Dan Katie Csurics self immolation is just a Bonus when it it pours it is As great As Clinton impeachment which the new York times is already claiming never happened in a frontage week in review article by Sam Tanenhaus on May the fact that we keep catching liberals in such blatant falsehoods shows you what they used to be Able to get away when the falsely accused Duke Lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were Newsweek put their Mug shots on its months after the Story broke and most of the exculpatory evidence was an opinion piece i assume it was an opinion the Washington Post began she was they were and race and sex were in the that not the tagline for a new reality the first line of a legitimate Story in a it was Down Hill from the Duke Case was reminiscent of a Black woman vulnerability to a White Man during the Days of reconstruction and Jim in the Case was reminiscent of the Scottsboro boys but this time the falsely accused rape defendants were if Only the press had dubbed them the Durham that would be a great title for the lifetime to movie about this Case that will never be the accusers history of making false accusations of gang the players alibis and prickly City by Scott Stantis w1nsuw x d in slow the prosecutors lies were All known to the new York times when it reported on that while there Are big weaknesses in Nifong there is also a body of evidence to support his decision to take the matter to a by body of the times was apparently referring to a smattering of racial and sexual stereotypes earnestly believed in Hollywood and in news rooms across America in Defiance of the the times article also in several important the full reviewed by the new York contain evidence stronger than that highlighted by the de the stronger evidence consisted of obvious lies told by the prosecution and lustily repeated by the even when the Jig was and the attorney general of North Carolina announced that the accused were much of the mainstream Media continued to withhold the accusers according to various postings on the inter Fox news Channel was the Only National television station to show the false accusers and can never even revealed her from my it appears that lbs news named Crystal Gail Mangum and showed her of this being the picture May have been but the Only time her name came out on can was by Nonenn employees during live press conferences and one time when a guest slipped it in you should Pardon the a discussion of Nifong disbarment unaware of inns policy of protecting the names of women who make false accusations of the new York times has yet to name the woman who falsely accused three men of committing a brutal gang the times Public editor described the papers delusional coverage of the Duke Case after the first several weeks As basically the times sports Tom said he was very comfortable with the Cov saying the Case had two main ele ments one was the allegation of rape the other was the general behaviour of a High level sports team at a prestigious uni that when you know your newspaper might have a wee hint of a Liberal Bias when even the sportswriters Are left Wing the times editor did not see this possibility As an element of the Case a Liberal prosecutor incites a racial conflagration weeks before an election in a heavily Black voting District by using the incredible claims of a stripper to falsely accuse three in Nocent White men of gang after the dust perhaps we can expect a Mary map Stype Book from Nifong explaining How the rape really did happen after or a Book from Joe Conason on How the people who brought Nifong Down were a conspiracy of you cant win a Victory like this without some liberals being George Bush May be an ineffective but that Doest mean All thought stops in the rest of the Well educated who have wealth and Homes and begin to Freak out As they get to know their apparent they have something to lose from allowing insane people to run the coun even in conservatism darkest we continue to see the transformation of responsible it happened with Bill Clin with Al Gores election with with the Swift boat with rather and now with the rolling re configuration of the country cant help but to proceed in a molecular a few More victories like and some Day the phrase sensible Liberal May make sense