Four Sunday morning huzzahs
1. Congrats to Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper on the economic, efficient implementation of a citywide 311 number. Now my permanently disgruntled neighbor won't have to get out the phone book when he wants to complain about the potholes on our street.
2. Congrats to hate-speech connoisseur Republican Jim Welker for doing the right thing. Welker announced he will not defend his seat in November. His decision may make HD51 harder for the Democrats to capture in November. But it will help keep our legislators' e-inboxes spam-free.
3. Congrats to CD7 Democratic candidate Herb Rubenstein, who emailed me his five-step plan for ending the Iraq War. And double congrats for emailing it at 9:46 p.m. on a Saturday night. That's a work ethic that's positively Clintonian. The five steps, are, ah, you know, if I go through them now, then this post will be like an outline and nobody likes outlines. I'll get into them later. Or maybe they're on his website. Now, where was I...
4. Congrats to statewide candidates like Bill Ritter and Steve Ludwig, who barnstormed the state yesterday, speaking to thousands of delegates in several counties. I heard Republican candidate for Governor Both Ways Bob Beauprez used a helicopter. No, I'm not kidding.
2. Congrats to hate-speech connoisseur Republican Jim Welker for doing the right thing. Welker announced he will not defend his seat in November. His decision may make HD51 harder for the Democrats to capture in November. But it will help keep our legislators' e-inboxes spam-free.
3. Congrats to CD7 Democratic candidate Herb Rubenstein, who emailed me his five-step plan for ending the Iraq War. And double congrats for emailing it at 9:46 p.m. on a Saturday night. That's a work ethic that's positively Clintonian. The five steps, are, ah, you know, if I go through them now, then this post will be like an outline and nobody likes outlines. I'll get into them later. Or maybe they're on his website. Now, where was I...
4. Congrats to statewide candidates like Bill Ritter and Steve Ludwig, who barnstormed the state yesterday, speaking to thousands of delegates in several counties. I heard Republican candidate for Governor Both Ways Bob Beauprez used a helicopter. No, I'm not kidding.
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The five steps are:
1. The U.S. and its allies call for an immediate 45-day cease-fire.
2. The U.S. and its allies agree to pay for the International Red Cross to hold an international seven- to ten-day conference inviting representatives from every country and every faction in Iraq to come and develop a plan to achieve peace and for peaceful economic development in Post-War Iraq. The conference would be held 15 to 25 days after the beginning of the cease-fire. All of its meetings would be posted live on the Internet.
3. A new international nonprofit organization would be formed with representatives from 20 nations to monitor and vet all contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq, including all current contracts in place. It would not allow for no-bid contracts and its books would be open for inspection via the Internet.
4. The conference would develop a plan to maintain the peace that may call for up to 200,000 international peacekeepers initially under an international flag to insure peace in Iraq. These peacekeepers would be paid by participation of foreign countries and then these countries would be repaid, at least in part, from oil revenues to Iraq that would be, over time, more than needed for Iraqi reconstruction. A main goal of the peacekeepers would be to train Iraqis to be able to maintain peace in their own homeland. The peacekeepers would replace U.S. troops beginning 45 days after the initial cease-fire.
5. The initial ceasefire would be extended permanently through a peace treaty signed by all factions in Iraq and all nations participating in the international conference.
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Very sweet, but this plan sounds like something that could only be implemented in the kind of magical world where all the little children join hands around the globe and sing happy songs of peace, causing their elders to see the light and join in a great big group hug. Does this really strike anyone as something that could possibly come to pass in the real world any time soon?
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