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VANDEN HEUVEL: I agree with Matt. You do need a legislative branch which asserts its authority. And it's not to say one doesn't have problem with executive authority when it comes to drones, or a questionable kill list of Americans, NSA surveillance.
But the balance is out. The balance is off. For example, the president should go to Congress if he's going to take military action in Iraq. And that was a part of your interview.
And I think we're sitting here at a moment, George, where we're talking about John Boehner. But the central question of war and peace for this country, there is no military solution to Iraq.
And I have to say, sitting next to Bill Kristol, man, I mean, the architects of catastrophe that have cost this country trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, there should be accountability.
We should not -- if there are no regrets for the failed assumptions that have so grievously wounded this nation, I don't know what happened to our politics and media accountability. But we need it, Bill, because this country should not go back to war.
We don't need armchair warriors. And if you feel so strongly, you should, with all due respect, enlist in the Iraqi army.
KRISTOL: That's a very cute line, Katrina, but people...
VANDEN HEUVEL: No, no. But it's real...
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-president-obama/story?id=24347932&singlePage=true
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)And that's what I told her the time I met her.
Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, question everything.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)question everything
(47,479 posts)another notch in his "intelligence."
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)wow, didn't know that
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)what is certain to follow is something that shows no respect of any kind. Not that I disagree with her, but I just cringe at that abuse of the English language.
I wish she would have said "... send your grandchildren over to Iraq ..." That would have hit a lot closer to home for people. Everybody knows these chickenhawks never put themselves in harm's way. It is always the children we send to die.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)I wish she would have said "... send your grandchildren over to Iraq ..." That would have hit a lot closer to home for people. Everybody knows these chickenhawks never put themselves in harm's way. It is always the children we send to die.
Republic0ns always invoke the little children into conversations for sympathy points in their arguments. Right... next time let's send your children and grandchildren if you are really that serious. Those little patriots should love the war, just like you.
question everything
(47,479 posts)As I was reading the transcript she actually started to break into Matt Dowd who was formulating an opinion that the "most powerful people in Washington today are the nine unelected people in the Supreme Court."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251368956
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)Send that war pig to the front line!
question everything
(47,479 posts)All these chickenhawks
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)haydukelives
(1,229 posts)to slap that shit eating grin of Kristols face. He is such a liar.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)to anything having to do with the Iraq war. But those m/f's forget, there would be 'no need' for 'the surge' had they not placed us in that war in the first place.