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Nameless Soldier back from the sandbox

By N in Seattle
Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 02:04:19 PM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Military

Our old friend Nameless Soldier (seen in several photos from dinazina's review of the May 2005 Seattle Kossacks picnic) just returned to Ft. Lewis after his second deployment in Iraq.  Literally just returned ... I think he may have arrived there yesterday!

He's written a superb diary on DailyKos, Back from Iraq, but not done fighting, which I highly recommend to all readers of Washblog.  If you have a dKos username, please drop a Recommend on him, and maybe even add a comment.

Within that diary is what I consider to be one of the strongest, pithiest, most meaningful observations anywhere about what we progressives need to do:
The way to win is not to move to the right wing; the way to win is to move to the right policy.

I've borrowed that statement as my dKos .sig.

Now that he's back in the area, Nameless Soldier wants to get back to the weekly DrinkingLiberally at the Montlake Ale House.  I fully expect him to attend next Tuesday's watching-of-the-returns and associated festivities, and I hope we'll have a really good turnout to welcome him back and to toast his good health.

I'm buying his first beer...

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He's got it right
-- the resistance of those within the Democratic party who push all the time to the Right.  This phrase from his diary, too:

Too many in the party listened to the consultants and the DLC and drove the liberal movement into the ground.

Right alongside the military industrial complex, corrupting democracy and national defense... we've got the consultant industrial complex, corruption democracy and elections.

DWE's diary on the bullying of the Clinton campaign in Washington state are a perfect example of this -- the consultancy taking on its own life and stepping all over democracy.

I like seeing the photos of Nameless Soldier -- very nice, thnx

by noemie maxwell on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 08:52:47 AM PST

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