Gary Hart (The Washington Post): Who Will Say 'No More'?

[Jack Rabbit]

From The Washington Post
Dated Wednesdayday August 24

Who Will Say 'No More'?
By Gary hart

"Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on," warned an anti-Vietnam war song those many years ago. The McGovern presidential campaign, in those days, which I know something about, is widely viewed as a cause for the decline of the Democratic Party, a gateway through which a new conservative era entered.

Like the cat that jumped on a hot stove and thereafter wouldn't jump on any stove, hot or cold, today's Democratic leaders didn't want to make that mistake again. Many supported the Iraq war resolution and -- as the Big Muddy is rising yet again -- now find themselves tongue-tied or trying to trump a war president by calling for deployment of more troops. Thus does good money follow bad and bad politics get even worse.

History will deal with George W. Bush and the neoconservatives who misled a mighty nation into a flawed war that is draining the finest military in the world, diverting Guard and reserve forces that should be on the front line of homeland defense, shredding international alliances that prevailed in two world wars and the Cold War, accumulating staggering deficits, misdirecting revenue from education to rebuilding Iraqi buildings we've blown up, and weakening America's national security.

But what will history say about an opposition party that stands silent while all this goes on? My generation of Democrats jumped on the hot stove of Vietnam and now, with its members in positions of responsibility, it is afraid of jumping on any political stove. In their leaders, the American people look for strength, determination and self-confidence, but they also look for courage, wisdom, judgment and, in times of moral crisis, the willingness to say: "I was wrong."

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[Crunchy Frog]

1. I've always REALLY liked Gary Hart.

I remember wanting so badly for him to get the nomination in '84, which was the first election I could vote in.

[GCP]

2. "History will deal with George W. Bush

"History will deal with George W. Bush and the neoconservatives who misled a mighty nation into a flawed war that is draining the finest military in the world, diverting Guard and reserve forces that should be on the front line of homeland defense, shredding international alliances that prevailed in two world wars and the Cold War, accumulating staggering deficits, misdirecting revenue from education to rebuilding Iraqi buildings we've blown up, and weakening America's national security."

Unfortunately George W. Bush doesn't give a shit what history will make of him:

"George W. Bush, when asked by Bob Woodward "how is history likely to judge your Iraq war?" replied, "History, we don't know. We'll all be dead." (Woodward Shares War Secrets, CBS News, 60 Minutes, April 18, 2004)."

http://www.opednews.com/lower042904_dead.htm

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Perhaps it would be best if we deal with Bush before history does

The Palace of Peace
The Hague
Home of the International Criminal Court

Photo from the Instituut voor Internationaal Reecht (Belgium)

[klyon]

4. The man is so pathetic, he does not even know history was made

when he said those stupid words
How could we have a President so uneducated and uncaring?

KL

[tom_paine]

5. Will their BE any honest history in The Age of Totalitarianism?

That remains to be seen. Will BushPutinism snuff out freedom and return the world to it's pre-American Revolution state, where not one free people exist ANYWHERE?

I don't know and I certainly hope not, but it is a possibility we have to consider.

Right now, it doesn't look good. The American People are broken like a swizzle stick, ready to lick boot and watch TV. Can Free Europe be far behind?

Only time will tell.