Hey...Look...A Second Party
Since the people who run the congress refuse to engage in oversight, the Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing yesterday on the Iraq War. Naturally, the press more-or-less entirely ignored this event, since people only report on the Democrats to mock them for being in "disarray" (exception: The San Francisco Chronicle did an article), but a variety of interesting things were said. Retired General John Batiste observed:
I believe that Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq. Rumsfeld failed to address the full range of requirements for this effort and the result is one percent of the population shouldering the burdens, continued hemorrhaging of our national treasure in terms of blood and dollars, an Army and Marine Corps which will require tens of billions of dollars to reset after we withdraw from Iraq, the majority of our National Guard brigades no longer combat ready, a Veterans Administration which is under funded by over $3 billion, and America arguably less safe now than it was on 9/11. If we had seriously laid out and considered the full range of requirements for the war in Iraq, we would likely have taken a different course of action which would have maintained a clear focus on our main effort in Afghanistan, not fueled Islamic fundamentalism across the globe, and not created more enemies than there were insurgents.
This seems correct to me. See also Fred Kaplan on how the Army's crumbling as a result of the intersection of war.
UPDATE: Yikes, this is wrong. As per SCJ's comment there was a bunch of MSM coverage this morning. I ran a Google News Search for "Democratic Policy Committee" that revealed little in terms of major outlet coverage (as opposed to progressive media outlets or specialty DC publications) but I obviously chose my search terms badly. Apologies. Interesting hearings nonetheless!
Comments
This story got a lot of coverage - and very little, if any (I didn't read it all), was mocking.
I think you are channeling Duncan Black this morning - not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that.
It's probably unfair to say "the press" is ignoring a story, while at the same time, ignoring "the press."
Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500731.html
Washington Post (again):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501114.html
Boston Globe (via AP):
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/26/retired_generals_say_rumsfeld_is_bungling_war/
Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-iraqpol26sep26,1,617751.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4214283.html
ABC:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2490668
ABC (again, doing pre-game):
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2488143
Reuters:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-09-25T232516Z_01_N25287562_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-USA.xml&archived=False
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/us/politics/26detain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
And the rest - which Google claims is 481 hits:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://polstate.com/%3Fp%3D4925
Yeah, I didn't have any trouble finding this story. I think the NYTimes had it up front on its on-line edition at least for a while.
While Republican leaders attempt to paint Democrats as weak on defense...going so far as to question their patriotism...their own Party leadership, apparently motivated by partisan political considerations, is willing to submit our military to lowered recruiting standards, expanded tours of duty, poor training, a lack of functional equipment, and the undoubtedly declining moral that comes with each. If that is how we measure patriotism, then we no longer understand its meaning.
Read more here:
www.thoughttheater.com
Sorta off topic, but when I saw this in Fred Kaplan's piece,
"And among the units cycling in and out of Iraq, troubles are brewing. The 3rd Infantry Division . . .[has] none of their armored vehicles . . . ."
my first, groggy thought was, "now we're down to bicycles?"
I first saw it on ABC TV evening news.
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