Maggie says:
First, from the brilliant Molly Ivins:
It's up to us to stop this war
This war is being prosecuted in our names, with our money, with our blood, against our will. Polls consistently show that less than 30 percent of the people want to maintain current troop levels. It is obscene and wrong for the president to go against the people in this fashion. And it's doubly wrong for him to send 20,000 more soldiers into this hellhole...
Second, a pissed-off Pelosi and an admonishment that Bush didn't meet with them before this morning, and that the meeting was "notification, not consultation."
Time for a plan, folks. Time for action. This is it. Make no mistake, Bush is blatantly disregarding the clear message sent by voters around the country, in overwhelming fashion, in November. Add to that message the countless words of caution and protest sounded by former military strategists and foreign policy experts, all of whom are horrified by what our country has gotten into and know there is no way out except retreat. Sending over 20,000 troops into combat at this time is not just unconscionable, it is deeply unethical. The new Congress must act at once to put a stop to this madness, this display of stubbornness so immense that not even unnecessary bloodshed makes it waver.
Stop, stop, stop, before things get even worse.
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