I do not support escalation. I support the President.

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Wednesday December 02, 2009 · 11:56 AM PST

2009/12/02 · 11:56

There is a diary on the rec list that accuses me of two things to which I am diametrically opposed, based on my diary last week. 1) I support the escalation; and 2) that I believe in stifling complaints about the President's policies. Neither could be further from the truth.

However, I am not here (and I do not think it is worth our time) to take up for myself or get into a meta fight with other Kossacks. I am writing this to clarify a position that I believe many Kossacks share. It is the basis of the aforementioned diarist's first point on "straw men" in the escalation debate.

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Tuesday November 24, 2009 · 9:06 PM PST

2009/11/24 · 21:06

I found your hard work so inspiring. I found your continual contributions so encouraging. I also saw that you were getting wrapped up in rhetoric and ideas and not paying attention to the facts.

Still, I have stood back and watched as you have taken every opportunity to attack a President for behaving in the ways he told us he would behave as our candidate.

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Sunday August 16, 2009 · 8:25 AM PDT

2009/08/16 · 08:25

I have often noted, with much sadness, that one of the most unfortunate things about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that only those who have served (and their families) have been asked to sacrifice anything at all.

On August 2nd, 2009, Sergeant First Class Alejandro "Alex" Granado III was killed by insurgents in Afghanistan. He was 42 years old. Alex was a friend of my mother's. She found out about his death just yesterday. She told me that after she found out Alex was going to Afghanistan, she began to watch the news regarding Operation Enduring Freedom much more closely. And that is only natural.

The large majority of us live in an America where the wars our country is fighting are events that are happening "over there" to "our brave men and women." They are merely afterthoughts in a country where we cut taxes during a war for the first time and watched an all-volunteer army suffer the load of wars with no clearly-defined mission and no end in sight.

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 9:02 AM PST

2007/11/08 · 09:02

In 2005, Tim Kaine had it all. His victory over the utterly repulsive Republican candidate, Jerry Kilgore, was a resonating one. He had taken on the worst personal attacks the national GOP had to offer and defeated George Bush's handpicked choice for the governorship. The Democratic Party was beginning its comeback from the depths of 2004 and his election reminded those among us who had fallen into a less than hopeful mood about our chances going forward that the fight was not over yet. He gave the Democratic response to the State of the Union only a few short months later and the future of his career looked bright. And yet somehow, Tuesday, after he had commandeered the Virginia Democrats' recapturing of the state Senate, it was all gone. In two short years, two years that had seen his initial spark turn into a prairie fire of electoral gains for the Democrats, Tim Kaine had seen every door that opened for him, close right before his eyes. He was a man without a home.

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