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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Pelosi just strikes me of someone that is an off the wall instant decision maker without really thinking her decisions through completely. Imagine if Bush and Cheney both died - she would be our president with this kind of mindset. Scary.
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Uh, that would be John McCain.
As far as THIS story goes though, I absolutely disagree with removing the posters and would have gone the opposite direction from Pelosi and instead placed posters of EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN who had lost their life due to the Iraq War throughout the halls of Congress. I would have made it so that you could not walk 10 feet without being reminded of those who gave the final measure due to the Bush Folly called the War in Iraq. You best believe it!
And then we would be having a discussion about the Republicans and Bush forcing their removal on the grounds that it was a political statement by the Democrats... and he would be right because that would be exactly what it would have been.
Instead, Pelosi (who is against the War in Iraq just like Mr. Jones is today) did what she would have been forced to do anyway- ask that the posters be removed.
I disagree with not being able to display the ten commandments in front of the county courthouse, I disagree with a lot of things and I disagree with removing the posters too. But that is the law as it stands today.
Sometimes you don't get to do the easy thing, the thing that you might otherwise want to do. Sometimes, as a leader you have to do the thing that the law requires and if Mr. Jones would learn that lesson- then he will be the better for it.
I say change the law and place posters of all of our fallen soldiers throughout the halls of Congress and remind those who support the war, or starting the next one... that there that there is a price for their folly and that THEY are not the ones footing the bill.
But hey, that's just me.