Publisher speaks out on situation in Iraq

[struggle4progress]

by Murray Cohen

<snip> I have seen a lot of dirty stuff in politics in my life but nothing quite as obscene as sending hundreds of thousands of Americans into harm’s way in Iraq while cutting taxes for the upper two percent of the wealthiest citizens; a pay back to mostly the president’s supporters. It’s just plain obscene. I’d like to see our president explain that one to a group of troops about to embark to the Mideast. <snip>

It’s time to change our course of action regarding how we use our strength. In the future, we need to refrain from entering other people’s civil wars. And we will be tempted. The best and most sophisticated public relations campaigns will be directed at us to get involved. <snip>

If we are attacked as on 9/11, our resources should go for building hospitals, medical training, ending the still present hunger and starvation in the world, providing clean water, ending child prostitution, ending slavery, lowering worldwide pollution of the land and air and seas, saving endangered species, exerting our moral pressure to end torture and imprisonment for expressing ideas. We could do it for pennies on the dollar compared to what warfare costs us. To think what we could have done for our own country and the world with the treasure we have expended in Iraq, it can make you sick, especially that it has been revealed that Iraq had largely dismantled its military to the extent that it was no longer a threat to the region. <snip>

http://www.delphosherald.com/page2.php?story=8276&archive=

[Cha]

1. That first paragraph says a lot!

"have seen a lot of dirty stuff in politics in my life but nothing quite as obscene as sending hundreds of thousands of Americans into harm’s way in Iraq while cutting taxes for the upper two percent of the wealthiest citizens; a pay back to mostly the president’s supporters. It’s just plain obscene. I’d like to see our president explain that one to a group of troops about to embark to the Mideast."

I'm sure a few of the Soldiers have caught on..I wish they all could.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. That tax cut would probably have bought 2 vests for every

NATIONAL GUARDSMEN sent over there without one. But we wouldn't want dear old dad to shave 2 feet off the new yacht, now would we.

[Bobbieo]

3. Publisher Speaks Out

His first paragraph "says it all"!

[MissMarple]

4. Look...Paris Hilton needs to go shopping. Have you no pity?

And she will thus stimulate the economy and everything will be just all hunky dory, for Paris, and we can all get fabulous jobs cleaning her houses for minimum wage with no French benefits. :eyes:

[indepat]

5. Obscene: the descriptive term most befitting almost all neocon initiatives