Quote of the Day
Laura Santina, writing in Counterpunch, had this to say a few days ago:
"A recent Boston Globe article focused on the fact that the Democrats are struggling to find one voice on Iraq. We don't need one voice from the Democrats. We need every Democrat who voted for this war to apologize for this illegal and immoral war and to insist that we leave Iraq immediately."
This is something to bear in mind as the liberal pundits and bloggers wet their pants over Harry Reid's actions in the Senate yesterday to get the Senate to investigate the way that the Bush regime manipulated intelligence in the period leading up to war in Iraq. In fact, the leaders of the Democratic Party who were beating the drums for war--people like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry--have yet to apologize for this vote or take anything even remotely like an antiwar stand. The Clintons and the Kerrys of the world continue to do everything they can to distance themselves from the antiwar movement.
In the pro-corporate, pro-war consensus that dominates American politics, the Democrats and Republicans bear equal responsibility for what happened in Iraq. History has repeatedly shown that the Democratic Party is irredeemably corrupt. While we should applaud and support any effort at investigating the Bush regime in its sordid efforts at justifying the Iraq War, we should also hold the Democrats to the fire as well. The solution to our current political mess does not lie in either major political party, and this is something that the Left should understand.
"A recent Boston Globe article focused on the fact that the Democrats are struggling to find one voice on Iraq. We don't need one voice from the Democrats. We need every Democrat who voted for this war to apologize for this illegal and immoral war and to insist that we leave Iraq immediately."
This is something to bear in mind as the liberal pundits and bloggers wet their pants over Harry Reid's actions in the Senate yesterday to get the Senate to investigate the way that the Bush regime manipulated intelligence in the period leading up to war in Iraq. In fact, the leaders of the Democratic Party who were beating the drums for war--people like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry--have yet to apologize for this vote or take anything even remotely like an antiwar stand. The Clintons and the Kerrys of the world continue to do everything they can to distance themselves from the antiwar movement.
In the pro-corporate, pro-war consensus that dominates American politics, the Democrats and Republicans bear equal responsibility for what happened in Iraq. History has repeatedly shown that the Democratic Party is irredeemably corrupt. While we should applaud and support any effort at investigating the Bush regime in its sordid efforts at justifying the Iraq War, we should also hold the Democrats to the fire as well. The solution to our current political mess does not lie in either major political party, and this is something that the Left should understand.
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