'That Poor, Pathetic Man'. Barbara Walters referred to Donald Trump in those words on January 11th. She could as easily be describing Dubya.
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Hey, George, before you try to install democracy in Iraq, how about heeding it in the United States? The people repudiated your Iraq policy on election day, plainly stating their intent that the United States remove its forces from that sad country. But you want to do the exact opposite of what the people told you, clear as a bell, to do. Instead of getting out, you want to go deeper in. And the Democrats, a miserable excuse for a major party, do nothing but mouth pro-forma 'support for the troops' rhetoric that does nothing to stop this defiance of the people's will.
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The Democrats pretend they can do nothing if Bush wants to send 20,000 — or 100,000 or 16 million — men into Iraq. After all, we had 16 million men under arms in World War II, and the Iraq war has already dragged on longer than that conflict. If they really can't stop him, the Democrats in Congress should just all resign from office and commit hara-kiri, which is what some members of the Japanese general staff who could not change the Emperor's decision to surrender did. In that, would be honor, of sorts. In endlessly proclaiming their adoration of our 'heroes' in Iraq and steadfastly insisting they will do everything necessary to protect our soldiers in Iraq, and approve all funding requests to keep them 'safe', the Democrats are consigning an unknowable number of 'our boys' to DIE in Iraq. They are as well consigning unknowable tens of thousands of Iraqis to death in the insane adventure launched by the neocons who control the Bush Administration.
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No, Dems. You don't "support our troops" IN Iraq. You support them by getting them the hell OUT of Iraq — you worthless, piece-of-sh*t morons!
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What kind of "democracy" do we have, that the President can defy the voters, and the Loyal Opposition that the people put into the majority to stop the President will not actually do anything to stop him? If the Republican Party says "Sh*t on the voters" and the Democrats say "Our hands are tied", then we need a new major party to displace both.
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There already exists an ideological framework for such a new party, the Expansionist Party of the United States. If we have to invade any area of the world whatsoever to be safe, then let's just take it over and incorporate it into our territory and civilization by the historic right of conquest. Who is going to make war on us if the consequence of defeat is occupation and annexation? And wouldn't the people of Iraq be hugely better off as our 51st State, an important, oil-rich part of a prosperous, tolerant, progressive United States than as an artificially impoverished, intolerant, and regressive country to themselves?
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,017 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:59 PM