Bush has shown precious little respect fro due process so why should he start now? Mona Shaw reports:
Word has arrived that some troops have already received their deployment orders for the war surge/escalation that President Bush plans to announce tomorrow night. Chiefs of staff have predicted that this surge will be the bloodiest stage of the war so far.
One of those to be deployed next week is my sister, Navy Chief Petty Officer, Jacklyn Shaw Smith. She will be serving on the USS Stennis. Part of her assignment is ground work in Iraq to repair planes and equiment. This is her third Iraq War deployment. I appreciate your prayers for her safe return, which is scheduled for August.
We will have additional signs protesting this decision at the Friday vigil this Friday.
The vigil will take place from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. at the corners of Washington and Clinton streets on the Pentacrest. Please come if you can.
Looks like Dave Loebsack will be in the front row for the surge fight with his second committee assignment: Armed Services. New chair Ike Skelton of Missouri is no leftie but here's what he said after a Chrismas trip over there:
“The complex patterns of violence in Iraq will not be solved without an Iraqi-led political solution. Any plan that proposes an increase in deployed American forces must address the question of what the Iraqis will do to put political solutions in place and to take over greater security responsibilities.
“I will look carefully and with an open mind at any proposal the President may make, but my view remains that removing some number of American troops—however small—would send a more powerful message to our Iraqi partners than raising force levels. "
Tom Vilsack don't want no surge neither, he tells the legislature in calling for an Iowa anti-surge resolution. That wouldn't be a BAD thing, but GWB seems unusually immune to persuasion on the matter.
This may be below the radar statewide but sure to be big here in the People's Republic: a tightening up of the open meetings law?
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