Tuesday, May 22, 2007

 

America Held Hostage: Day #2,313

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on our endless hostage crisis:

There are two ways to describe the confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that it’s a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders — the troops — if his demands aren’t met.

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