One claims she was slimed.
by Tina Grazier
There isnt a whole lot that tickles me while Im reading war blogs, but when I came across the following bit of information on The Tank over at National Review Online a great big smile crossed my faceand its true, I felt all kinds of warm in my heart region!
It seems there were a couple of visiting dignitaries to the Green Zone, two democrat congress critters to be exact, and this time someone in the military decided to prepare ahead of time. As James P. Moran (D-VA) and his collegue, Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.) moved about in the area they noticed a lot of papers aroundthe papers were everywhere.
In the soldier’s hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen’s meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war. “Moran on Iraq policy,” read one section, going on to cite some the congressman’s most incendiary statements, such as, “This has been the worst foreign policy fiasco in American history.”
The bio of Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.) “TAU (rhymes with ‘now’)-sher,” the bio helpfully relates was no less pointed, even if she once supported the war and has taken heat from liberal Bay Area constituents who remain wary of her position. “Our forces are caught in the middle of an escalating sectarian conflict in Iraq, with no end in sight,” the bio quotes. **** “This is beyond parsing. This is being slimed in the Green Zone,” Tauscher said of her bio.
Maybe if our Congressmen had to look these guys in the eye as they issued political statements to the press they might reconsider their positions and adopt a different tonewe might even hope they would have the capacity to admit feeling ashamed over past statements, or at the very least to having egg on their faces, buthope seldom yields much reward.
Right now I’m just proud of whomever it was that thought to give our guys the war related skinny on these two. As Steve Schippert said in his post on the blog, “If the elected officials or anyone else feel ‘slimed’ by attribution to such statements…the solution is simply not to make them if they are so egregious.” I couldn’t agree more.