Democrats: Get loud, get angry!

[struggle4progress]

The only way to end this administration's string of blunders in Iraq is to go on the offensive.

By Morton Abramowitz and Samantha Power
April 10, 2006

... In 2006, most Democrats are laying low on Iraq, allowing the war to damage the Republican Party all by itself. With Bush's poll numbers hovering at about 35% and a number of once-untouchable GOP seats in the House vulnerable, the Democrats can be forgiven for believing that their approach is working.

But although this strategy may make a certain amount of political sense, it will serve neither the country nor the Democrats in the long run ...

There is no panacea for Iraq. But even in the absence of a panacea, Democrats must alter the perception among Americans that the party is incapable of leading the country in wartime. Democrats must speak in unison and demand an essential and long-overdue personnel change. The secretary of Defense — the implementer of the greatest strategic blunder of the last half a century — must go ...

Bush and his administration have managed to combine profound incompetence with profound certainty. The 2008 election is a long way off. If the Democrats stand any chance of improving U.S. foreign policy in the near term, while also positioning themselves to conduct it in the medium term, it will not be by making nice. It will be by adding another truth to the administration's absolutist gospels: If you screw up monumentally, you — like those harmed in your wake — will pay a price.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-oe-power10apr10,1,1822708.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

[mzmolly]

1. I expect we'll see some loud angry rhetoric closer to the 06 elections?

K and R.