How historically pathetic can our war be?
According to a news report recently, we have been betrayed by the Entire Government. The entire government has failed us on Iraq.
For the president, and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file Congressmen and Senators of EITHER party - there is only blame for this shameful, and bi-partisan, betrayal.
Few men or women elected in our history - whether executive or legislative, state or national - have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq.
Yet after six months of preparation and execution - half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:
1) The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president - if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history - who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats "give the troops their money";
2) The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;
3) The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.
4) The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.
But how horrifying it is...to watch a President hold his breath and threaten to continue to do so, until innocent American children/soldiers in harms way, are bled white.
According to a news report recently, we have been betrayed by the Entire Government. The entire government has failed us on Iraq.
For the president, and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file Congressmen and Senators of EITHER party - there is only blame for this shameful, and bi-partisan, betrayal.
Few men or women elected in our history - whether executive or legislative, state or national - have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq.
Yet after six months of preparation and execution - half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:
1) The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president - if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history - who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats "give the troops their money";
2) The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;
3) The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.
4) The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.
But how horrifying it is...to watch a President hold his breath and threaten to continue to do so, until innocent American children/soldiers in harms way, are bled white.