Enablers

From Ron Jacobs at Counterpunch:

Okay. I’m going to state the obvious here. After all, somebody needs to say it. In fact, everybody who sees it needs to say it. Are you ready? Then here goes. The men and women calling themselves Democrats and sitting in Congress are the biggest bunch of liars this country has ever seen. Given today’s political situation, what with Bush and Cheney running the White House, that’s a pretty big claim to make. Unfortunately for those who believed those men and women might actually stop the war in Iraq and begin getting the US military out of there, this is the only conclusion one can make.

I mean, take a look. There are more troops in Iraq now than there were when the Democrats won (yeh, won) both houses of Congress a little over a year ago. If my calculations are correct, more than $100 billion have been spent to keep those troops there, keep them in supplies both lethal and otherwise, and to top it off, more troops have died since those elected “representatives” took their places than in any other year of this loathsome war and occupation. Add to this list of calamities the untold numbers of Iraqis killed, wounded and uprooted from their homes. No matter how you look at it, there is no way this can be called ending the war. In fact, not only could it be called enabling this debacle to continue, the more truthful description would be to call what the Democrats have done is conspire to commit murder.

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I had such high hopes when the Democrats took Congress a year ago. Both Nancy and Harry were promising to rein in Bush and what’s happened? Bubkus. The war goes on. Bush is one heartbeat away from crowning himself Dictator for Life. I’m starting to feel like Charlie Brown playing football with Lucy, and frankly I’m tired of it.

It’s time to clean house completely and throw ‘em all out. One term limits. We need fresh blood in that body on a regular basis to prevent this crap from ever happening again.