Durbin: "The thought that we could stop this in it's tracks...

[King_Crimson]

is just not practical"! Tell me then Senator Durbin...just WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO TELL YOU PEOPLE THIS PAST NOVEMBER?? If we wanted complicity in this criminal enterprise we would have re-elected the status quo!

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This decision to escalate the US military intervention is a direct repudiation of the results of the 2006 congressional elections, in which millions of American voters expressed their opposition to the war in Iraq by putting an end to Republican control of the Senate and House of Representatives.

The first wave of additional troops has already begun deploying to the region, and a total of six brigades will be ordered all together, five into the city of Baghdad and one into Anbar Province, center of the Sunni insurgency against the US occupation. Bush has also sent an additional aircraft carrier task force—equipped with hundreds of nuclear weapons—into the Persian Gulf.

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In other words, a military campaign that has already produced torture and humiliation at Abu Ghraib, mass murder at Haditha, and the rape and murder of Iraqi schoolgirls will now “take the gloves off.”

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The official Democratic Party response, delivered by Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, was just as reactionary and dishonest as Bush’s own address, and if possible, even cruder, verging on outright racism. According to Durbin, the US government has proceeded on the purest of motives. “We have protected Iraq when no one else would,” he exclaimed, describing an American intervention which has shattered Iraq as a functioning society and reduced much of the country to primitive conditions.

“America has given Iraqis so much,” he continued, listing the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the writing of a new constitution and elections to a new government. Now it was time for Iraqis to take responsibility for themselves, he declared. “They must know every time they call 9-1-1, we’re not going to send another 20,000 troops.”

more...
www.wsws.org


I guess it could well be that starting impeachment hearings NOW may well be the only feasible way to stop this insanity...and rid our country of this terminal cancer which has infected it! :headbang:

[lancdem]

1. The World Socialist Web site?

Not exactly at the top of my reading list, lol, though I agree with your call for impeachment.

[King_Crimson]

2. You might want to consider perusing the site...

it IS run by American citizens, and I did not say I agreed with their philosophies. Their method of reporting the news overshadows that of the American media! :headbang:

[lancdem]

4. Actually, I have read some of their pieces on DU

now and then.

[rodeodance]

3. durbin did surprise me yesterday with all this compliments about

how good the US had been to Irag

[bobbolink]

6. Pelosi, Reid and other Dems have been saying that shit

since shortly after the election.

That's why some of us aren't full of hope just because of a Dem "takeover".

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

Maybe not the "same", but certainly similar. :cry:

[RethugAssKicker]

5. Durbin said that ???.... That fucking SOB...

Was that the Dem response?.... Is that the official Dem position.


Maybe I need to go Independent!!