You're Wrong, Senator Coleman, Iraq IS a Major Issue!

Coleen Rowley
Huffington Post

Many of us were puzzled when a newspaper reporter covering Republican Senator Norm Coleman wrote that it seems "Minnesotans' minds are on matters ...other than Iraq." So a bunch of us, not realizing this was just another GOP talking point, decided to go right up to the front door of Coleman's yellow colonial house located on a beautiful residential street in St. Paul that just happens to be lined with red "Support the troops--End the war" yard signs. Apparently his neighbors' yard signs weren't doing the trick in getting the message across to the Senator that Minnesotans ARE concerned about the terrible costs of the ongoing occupation of Iraq so we thought we'd communicate that message a little more clearly.

We rang the Senator's doorbell and someone even banged a drum for a while but no one came out. Then shortly after taking this picture, who turns up in the back alley? Norm Coleman himself. With police and bodyguard accompanying him, he confidently strode to his front yard to address our peace group. Here's Coleman's silvery-tongued, continued insistence that he's not hearing much about Iraq, that even though he'd like to bring the troops home, he has to believe Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda says that Iraq is the central front (in the war on terror). The quick translation of all his slick, double talk indicated to us that Coleman was inclined to simply stay with Bush's (disastrous) course. But at least we got it on tape so we can listen again.

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