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i keep thinking that there is more to this than war being hell- that there is some responsibility to be more prepared that we have been, that this is a logistical nightmare playing out. like signposting roadblocks, or, heaven forfend, asking the locals how saddam's regime communicated roadblocks and using a variation of that. there are both formal and informal international methods of quickly communicating danger to people despite cultural and linguistic barriers. they don't always work, but that hardly seems the problem here. the problem here is that on so many levels the administration hasn't bothered to think this through, and haven't given the military what they need to fight the war we need.

to clarify.. when i said "need to take responsibility" i didn't really mean for any moral reason, i was stating my views on what the dems need to do to see more success as a political party. (fwiw, the democrats have started more of a get out the vote campaign, so they and i are in at least some agreement.) as such, i don't really need to worry about whether i should be allowed such authority- i don't really want it, it's just a comentary on a situation.

you were right, i'm a nader voter, but i'm not much of a loss to the dems, i've been voting mostly party ticket green for years. i honestly don't think green voters are the democrat's problem of recent years, i think it's unfortunate that some are scapegoating their problems on the greens, because they fail to address the root causes of the problem. on the whole, i suspect that dem rancor is good for my party, seeing as they keep spelling both "green" and "nader" correctly in the media.

middle class women, african americans and other minorities- these are strong hold dem votes, many of which have felt disenfranchised by the shift in their party to capture middle votes. they haven't run off to vote for nader, they've just stayed home. they are the ones to reach out to, and if there's anyone to blame for 2000, it's them.

that said, it's not going to attract anyone back to voting democrat to throw a lot of anger and blame around. and as for shifting so far to the left to capture green voters like me? a very foolish move- that'd alienate a whole swath of people, even i know that. :)

i'm still annoyed at how it's the people that voted for nader who are to blame for the situation, and not the *roughly* *half* of the population that didn't bother voting at all.

the dems need to take responsibility for getting their people out to the polls on election day, and they need to take responsibility for moving so far to the right that some of their traditional stronghold have fallen off the trailing edge. complaining about the incredibly small number of greens out there while groups like african americans and latinos are staying home in droves during midterm elections just makes them look petty.

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