Here’s the text of Mayor Cook’s statement endorsing the much-ballyhood-here Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq. (And that’s MAYOR to you, Schroeder and Jubal!)
Debbie Cook Endorses a ‘Responsible Plan’ to End the War In Iraq
A little more than a week ago, a group of congressional candidates, together with military strategists, put together what they call a “responsible plan” to end the war in Iraq. The plan, the authors write, will:
- End U.S. Military Action in Iraq
- Use U.S diplomatic power
- Address humanitarian concerns
- Restore our Constitution
- Restore our military
- Restore independence to the media
- Create a new, U.S.-centered energy policySigning onto the plan Debbie wrote, “A majority of Americans believe that we should leave Iraq and many believe we should pull our troops out immediately. “Any plan to bring our men and women in uniform back from Iraq safely has to be carefully considered. I have endorsed the Responsible Plan, because it takes steps to address all the issues that a withdrawal will entail: ending military action in Iraq, using diplomatic power, restoring the military, and creating a new energy policy. “My specific contribution to implementing the Responsible Plan in Congress will revolve around our energy policy and how rapid progress on energy issues is necessary for us to solve key problems of the faltering economy, jobs, national security, food, and transportation. “The key to our nation’s future prosperity is reducing our consumption of fossil fuels and creating new green collar jobs in a clean energy economy.”
And the Mayor’s campaign to unseat Crazy Dana Rohrabacher continues to be the most exciting Congressional campaign in Orange County; no offense to progressive stalwart Steve Young’s great grassroots work over the past three years in the South County, or the troika of SL’s vying to throw themselves at Dirty Gary Miller (on which I defer to the judgment of my sparring partner Ms. Spinosa.) Contribute to the estimable Mayor here!
I hope that she sends the Huntington Beach Navy to the Gulf of Hormuz in support of her plan.
Too bad,
Dana will slide into another easy congressional victory.
If anyone has read “the plan” maybe you can tell me/us who is the author?
Who are “Responsible Media LLC” and where are they located?
“There’s a sucker born every minute” and “Vietnamization”
Sounds like history repeating itself.
Go to:
http://www.responsibleplan.com/press
Also check out my review of the plan at:
http://www.theorangejuice.com/2008/03/review-of-responsible-plan-to-end-war.html
SMS
The Iraqi plan seems to be working best – especially with the addition of the part about blitzing the Green Zone.
Cook! How can you not want another Cook to be in Congress? Too many Cooks in the kitchen or what?
Anyway, it’s getting hard to take anything you say about this seriously. We’ve been discussing this plan for days, and you always pop up saying negative things about it; and now it turns out you haven’t even glanced at it and have no idea who wrote it!
Almost makes it feel like a waste of time responding to you bro.
Oh I just noticed this: Debbie’s release includes the phrase ‘green collar jobs.’ I love it. Defining terminology is a great way to show that you’re a leader. Very nice. 🙂
SMS
I get the thing about Cook being a lib but Dana is a draft dodging chicken hawk. He is fine with sending our sons and daughters to war but when it was his time to ride to the sound of the guns..he hide. So Dana, you suck!
Vern,
The link to the plans does not work for those who want to read it.
Here is one to a PDF file.
http://burner.3cdn.net/20f4382dfab715f445_qvm6ibjk6.pdf
I read the plan. It is pure propaganda.
And the author/s hide behind a LLC. Doesn’t that bother you?
Hey, but I like what you’ve done with the music on your website.
And if I was in that district, I think I would vote for Cook too.
Well, Cook, you confuse me. How is the plan “pure propaganda?” One or two examples please!
And it’s true the whole plan is on a PDF, but you CAN get to it from responsibleplan.com. And the authors are hiding? I don’t know about this LLC, but I was hearing about the plan as it was developed, and it was written by a group of 10 Congressional challengers led by Darcy Burner along with at least a couple of retired milirary guys including Major General Eaton. Anyway anyone who signed onto it can be considered an “author” that’s how legisltation works, and this can be thought of as a huge piece of legislation.
So, how is it propaganda?
Techniques for generating propaganda:
(1) Appeal to authority: Appeals to authority cite prominent figures to support a position, idea, argument, or course of action.
(2) Appeal to fear: Appeals to fear seek to build support by instilling anxieties and panic in the general population, for example,
(3) Big Lie: The repeated articulation of a complex of events that justify subsequent action. The descriptions of these events have elements of truth, and the “big lie” generalizations merge and eventually supplant the public’s accurate perception of the underlying events.
(1) The signer on’s is a way of making it appear to have authority.
(2) Fear that the government is reading your e-mails and listening to your telephone calls.
(3) The USA or the world had nothing to fear from Iraq.
But the reasons for getting into Iraq were also propaganda too.
So if you are comfortable with it and find it believable then you have no problem signing on for the ride.
The 1 to 3 items came from the online From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OK, Cook, with all due respect, I don’t think you pulled off making the case that it’s propaganda.
1) It would not be propaganda if nobody with authority signed on to it?
2) The government IS spying on us illegally; Bush admitted as much years ago, and new revelations come out monthly-or-so about how wide is the net they cast.
3) Yes. The US and the world had nothing to fear from Saddam’s Iraq. He was a pain in the ass to his own people, granted.
So… that’s the best you could do. You spent 5 minutes (?) trying to cavalierly dismiss a 36-page plan put together over weeks by at least a dozen good people smarter than you or I. You should probably just admit it’s not propaganda, you will sleep better tonight.
Darcy Burner is the author of “the plan” She is running for congress with one loss in 06, her education is a degree in computer science and economics.
I could not find any co-authors, but there are other candidates for congress running on an anti-war platform who have endorsed “the plan”.
found nothing saying that the General or Capitan had any participation in drafting “the plan”. And the only “the plan” website says they endorse it.
I don’t see how her expertise as a computer software administrator qualifies as an expert in military matters, or national security, constitutional law or energy policies.
The lemming syndrome is strong in America.
Hey Cook, just found out I get to meet Darcy Burner Wednesday! I guess I’ll ask her who else helped write the PLANNNNNNNNNNNN.
Hey that is great.
I don’t mind eating crow.
Let us readers know how it turns out and what you find out.