{"id":121,"date":"2006-06-16T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T09:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-06-16T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T09:18:59","slug":"retreat-is-not-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/retreat-is-not-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"retreat is not an option"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wasn’t woken up by an earthquake today, so it’s a bit later than yesterday by the time i get myself on-line. Disturbed by the news of the vote in the House against any perspective on withdrawal of the troops from Iraq. These people in Washington, mostly Republicans of course but a bunch of Democrats as well (what the hell…) would like to “complete the mission” in Iraq. Haven’t been terribly impressed with the word “mission” since i’m living here and visited the State Historic Park of the Santa Cruz Mission<\/a>, but that aside. I’m really wondering how those people in that House consider the state of the mission. “Retreat is not an option,” said one of the Republican representatives just before the vote, and since de facto it obviously always is an option, since it has been an “option” before (remember Vietnam), i’m wondering what this statement means in terms of his vision on the current war situation. I guess those people in the House must believe that the situation in Iraq is better than it was some years ago (i wonder how many Iraqis would agree…), or if it’s not better now, than at least it will get better soon. En effet, tout va tr\u00c3\u00a8s bien, Monsieur le Pr\u00c3\u00a9sident…<\/i> As i’m struggling to understand just a bit more of the quagmire of this war, and just a little bit more what it would take for Iraq to have a better future, i’m frankly quite baffled by the (arrogant) confidence of this House. It almost gets fascinating: so you’re confidently striding on your mission to be completed eh, please do tell me more about that cause frankly i’d like to understand how you can come up with such a disney-wonderland vision on the world… <\/p>\n

(from the NYTimes) “WASHINGTON, June 16 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The House of Representatives voted, 256 to 153, today in favor of a resolution promising to “complete the mission” in Iraq, prevail in the global fight against terrorism and oppose any “arbitrary date for withdrawal” of American troops.<\/p>\n

The nonbinding but politically significant resolution was approved with just three Republicans voting against it and 42 Democrats voting for it. The measure also expresses gratitude for the valor and sacrifice of American and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and congratulates the new Iraqi government.<\/p>\n

This morning’s vote, coming after an emotional and partisan debate, was a victory for President Bush, who has declared that it is in the national-security interest of the United States to stay in Iraq until that country is secure. It was a victory, too, for the House Republican leadership.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wasn’t woken up by an earthquake today, so it’s a bit later than yesterday by the time i get myself on-line. Disturbed by the news of the vote in the House against any perspective on withdrawal of the troops from Iraq. These people in Washington, mostly Republicans of course but a bunch of Democrats as … Continue reading “retreat is not an option”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}