Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Word
At any rate, I mention it because he picks up this quote from Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America:
UPDATE: I see the piece is a couple weeks old. Still a good quote, anyway.
No one is holding Joe Klein up as a model of progressive journalism. But his piece on the "epic collapse" of the Bush administration is worth a certain number of schadenfreude points (see the News Blog for Klein's rebuttal of his own argument).
At any rate, I mention it because he picks up this quote from Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America:
"The entire VA hospital system is unprepared for the casualties of Iraq, especially the psychiatric casualties. A lot of vets are saying, 'This is our Katrina moment.' And they're right: this Administration governs badly because it doesn't care very much about governing."Emphasis mine. As we like to say: conservatives can't govern, because conservatives don't believe in government.
UPDATE: I see the piece is a couple weeks old. Still a good quote, anyway.
Labels: conservatives, Joe Klein, veterans
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