{"id":2822,"date":"2006-06-25T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/25\/clueless-in-tennessee\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T07:11:37","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T14:11:37","slug":"clueless-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/25\/clueless-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Clueless in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In an odd turnabout, some Democratic &#8220;antiwar&#8221; politicians are explaining their vote against the recent &#8220;stay the course&#8221; resolution passed by Congress on the grounds that it means supporting amnesty for insurgents. &#8220;I support our troops and goals in Iraq,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/politics\/article\/0,1406,KNS_356_4798296,00.html\"><font size=\"2\">says<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford, Jr., currently a congressman and a candidate for U.S. Senate, &#8220;but I will not support a resolution praising a government that wants to grant amnesty to terrorists fighting our troops. There is only one option for such people: we should hunt them down and punish them. Amnesty is not an option.&#8221; <\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\">Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Senate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-ranking Democrat &#8212; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/IraqCoverage\/story?id=2116569&#038;page=1\"><font size=\"2\">agree<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\">If Nixon had followed this policy during the Vietnam war, we would never have negotiated with the Vietnamese and extricated ourselves from that quagmire. And what if the Iraqis resolve to &#8220;hunt down and punish&#8221; any and all American troops responsible for the killing of Iraqi civilians?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I see that the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.100webcustomers.com\/fairenough\/nyt280.html\">backed down<\/a> from his offer of amnesty, doubtless in response to the political reaction in the U.S. So much for the vaunted &#8220;independence&#8221; of the Iraqi government, which is, in reality, a collection of American sock-puppets. And so much for the prospects of a negotiated settlement for this seemingly endless, futile war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an odd turnabout, some Democratic &#8220;antiwar&#8221; politicians are explaining their vote against the recent &#8220;stay the course&#8221; resolution passed by Congress on the grounds that it means supporting amnesty for insurgents. &#8220;I support our troops and goals in Iraq,&#8221; says Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford, Jr., currently a congressman and a candidate for U.S. Senate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}