Declaring that ‚ÄúAmerican values and America‚Äôs role in the world are all at stake,‚Äù Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Tuesday said he will lead an effort to block funding for a troop surge in Iraq “unless and until Congress approves” President Bush‚Äôs plan for such a deployment.
From Yahoo News: Congress Should Vote on Troop Surge in Iraq, Kennedy Says
The Bush Surge protector T-Shirt is a Silkscreen on a heavyweight cotton shirt, i’m not sure i’d heard of this new bush strategy being called a “surge”, I wonder if their trying to soften the language of “sending more troops”.
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January 10th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Yeah, I’ve never heard it called a surge either, weird…
January 11th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Did you catch his spiel tonight? I heard about a minute of it… and then I played Wii Sports to soothe the pain. Trying to frame his actions as protecting America and rescuing a wartorn country that had recently been subjected from tyranny (a paraphrase of the bit I heard)? … come on, now.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
If you guys hadn’t heard the “surge” language until yesterday, you need to be paying closer attention. They are using the word to avoid saying “escalation” and to distinguish it semantically from “staying the course”.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Hmm, that’s certainly what I thought they were doing
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