Message to the timid Democratic Congressional leadership...

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http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/06/04/edi06024.html

April 14, 2006
The Revolt of the Generals: Just Short of a Coup Against the Incompetence of the Busheviks?

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Whether the story is true in its specifics, it is true in the approach that the Democratic leadership in Congress is taking toward the mid-term elections. The national Dem Congressional platform appears to be simply this: "Vote for us. We're less corrupt than they are, and we are much more sane."

We'd agree with that statement wholeheartedly, but it's hardly a ringing battle cry when others, like the former generals and your own Congressman Murtha are taking the Iraq issue right to the front line -- at personal risk to their reputations and their good fortune, due to the proven vindictive nature of the White House. (Just ask Joe Wilson.)

Message to the timid Democratic Congressional leadership: Democrats appear weak when they don't stand up for the truth and they leave former generals and burly ex-Marine congressman to speak out for how we can attempt to achieve true national security.

For the Democratic Congressional leadership to let the generals sound the alarm without rallying to their side; for the Democratic Congressional leadership to allow Murtha to steadfastly state the case against Bush without resoundingly backing him up; for the Democratic Congressional leadership to let former Bush Administration officials, without protecting their flanks, argue the case for how Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld lied us into war -- this is not supporting our military and our soldiers.

This is to abandon them.

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