The Expansionist

Monday, February 14, 2005

Whose Chutzpah? Deborah Orin, in an opinion column in today's New York Post entitled "Howie's Chutzpah", willfully misleads readers in suggesting that Howard Dean is dodging a responsibility to make policy pronouncements as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Both he and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi have said plainly that the role of the head of the DNC is NOT to establish policy for the party but only to organize and raise money for Democrats around the country. Democrats have said plainly that it is elected members of Congress, governors, mayors, etc. that establish policy, not the DNC. So Orin's tirade is not just off-target but knowingly malicious for suggesting that Dean is arrogant and cowardly for knowing his role and deferring to elected leaders on all issues of party policy.
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As for Orin's claim that "we all stand in awe of the courage of our troops", that is just plain bull. U.S. troops have no right to be in Iraq. They weren't invited. They have caused massive death and destruction, and continue to impose a military occupation upon an unwilling people. I'm sure the people of Nazi Germany were proud of their brave boys who conquered Poland in a trice and stood valiantly against the forces of Communism at Stalingrad. They have had time to reconsider.
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(The latest U.S. military death toll for Iraq, as reported at the website Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, is 1,461.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:03 PM

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