link- http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0619-2...
Reclaim the Issues - "Occupation, Not War"
by Thom Hartmann

Every time the media - or a Democrat - uses the phrase "War in Iraq" they are promoting one of Karl Rove's most potent Republican Party frames.
There is no longer a war against Iraq.

It ended in May of 2003, when George W. Bush stood below a "Mission Accomplished" sign aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and correctly declared that we had "victoriously" defeated the Iraqi army and overthrown their government.

Our military machine is tremendously good at fighting wars - blowing up infrastructure, killing opposing armies, and toppling governments. We did that successfully in Iraq, in a matter of a few weeks. We destroyed their army, wiped out their air defenses, devastated their Republican Guard, seized their capitol, arrested their leaders, and took control of their government. We won the war. It's over.

What we have now is an occupation of Iraq.

The occupation began when the war ended, and continues to this day. According to our own Pentagon estimates, at least ninety five percent of those attacking our soldiers are Iraqi civilians who view themselves as anti-occupation fighters. And last week both the Defense Minister and the Vice President of Iraq asked us for a specific date on which the occupation would end.
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Thom frames it really well & then gives an example on how a TV interview might go if the Democrats frame the issue as an Iraqi occupation instead of an Iraqi war.

Bush's company. If this is true who knows what company to go with.

Here's an article that is in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

But Feingold's call for censure of president won't fly

By CRAIG GILBERT
cgilbert@journalsentinel.com

Posted: Mar. 18, 2006

Washington - While most senators recoiled last week from Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold's resolution to censure the president, many of them agreed with one of its basic premises: that the wiretapping of Americans without a warrant is against the law.

Doubts about the legality of the government's once-secret domestic surveillance program can be found among both liberal and conservative scholars and on both sides of the aisle in Congress.

In other words, unlike his proposal for censure, Feingold's claims about "illegal wiretapping" are well within the mainstream of congressional debate on the issue.

But critics of the censure resolution make two very different arguments about those claims.
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The rest of the article is here- http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?i...

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