Hillary's SHAMEFUL STRADDLING on Iraq... by the great Robt. Scheer...
Robert Scheer is the great reporter - a real, live JOURNALIST - who was recently fired by the COWARDLY, LYING editors of the LA Times for ... speaking too honestly about the truly important issues in America today. Namely the theft of our democracy, government, free press, independent media, treasury, tax-dollars, and blood of our fellow citizens by the evil, amoral, "Slavery Today, Slavery Tomorrow, Slavery forever!" Bush administration.
(Call it 'financial enslavement," "economic servitude," "slave-wage peons," or what have you.... the Republican agenda is now so blatantly a call for a return to the subjugation of sharecropping, segregation, and outright chattel slavery, that at least two of the dumber Republicans have been caught ON THE RECORD as advocating some form of SLAVE LABOR. A few weeks ago one Repug Congressmen called for America's Black prisoners to be put to work picking fruit; and this past week another idiot Repuglican calling for massive "detention camps" for illegal immigrants, so to use them as forced labor to build a US anti-immigration barrier wall on the Mexico border.)
Now we here at C-Dems.blgspt.com have been reluctant to bash "our own" on the Democratic side of the aisle - believe us, editing C-dems is an onerous, distasteful chore, made ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY by
#1. Al Gore's BETRAYAL of Texas schoolchildren (slashed off of preschool, after-school, and health care by Tex. Gov. George W. Bush's SLASHING of education funding so to give TAX-CUTS to Texas' wealthiest, most well-connected corporations);
#2. Joe Lieberman (and the ENTIRE Democratic Party's) BETRAYAL of African-American voters in Florida and THROUGHOUT AMERICA in the 2000 Florida stolen election;
#3. Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Govt. Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman's BETRAYAL of workers, investors, pensioners, and energy consumers RIPPED OFF by Enron FRAUD and EXTORTION during the 2002 midterm elections (in which Daschle lost his "pork barrel for a decade in a small state!" senate seat to the Bush-Rove smear campaign); and of course
#4. JOHN KERRY's BETRAYAL OF VOTERS IN OHIO and throughout America in 2004 - we don't believe Mr. Bush 'won' a majority of actual voters in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, or Iowa, and that the entire myth of a solid block of "red state voters" for Bush is nothing but effective propaganda bolstered by election fraud - none of which John Kerry pretends to notice, ALTHOUGH HE HAS BEEN CAUGHT ON TAPE SAYING THAT HE WELL KNOWS that the 2004 election was stolen.
Which brings us to Mr. Scheer's latest article, "HILLARY'S SHAMEFUL STRADDLING ON IRAQ."
We here at C-dems.blgspt.com could hardly ask for a better example of the VACILLATION and PRETENDED IGNORANCE and ENFORCED SILENCE and PUTTING A HAPPY FACE ON STOLEN ELECTIONS than is recorded in the statements, issues, and record of the Junior Senator from New York over the past 5 years.
Like Al Gore in 2000, Senator Hillary Clinton has a bad case of BUYING IN TO RIGHT-WING holy morality lynch-mob PROPAGANDA.
The very IDEA that because Righties shouted "RAPIST! LIAR! DRAFT-DODGER!" against the person of Bill Clinton makes THEM more moral and holy than other Americans. The very idea that 40 million+ voters and the hopes and needs of tens of million more citizens could be negated, ignored, overridden by the Republican impeachment process being whipped along by Tom DeLay in the House with a lame-duck Congress... DeLay once known as "HOT TUB TOM."
The very idea that we Americans should be scolded about our sexual mores by the serial adulterers and philanderers House impeachment managers, who ran the impeachment based on their "moral values" rhetoric.
THE VERY IDEA THAT HILLARY CLINTON, JOHN KERRY, and the Democratic Party would PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE the ILLEGAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT of tens of thousands of Democratic voters, in at least one case (Florida in 2000) disenfranchisement and VOTE FRAUD having stolen the presidency from the popular-vote winner, and in 2000 Diebold computerized vote rigging probably having stolen a second presidential election in a row - without the Democrat Party EVEN CALLING ATTENTION TO DIEBOLD's PROPRIETARY computer code or serial conflicts of interest or Katherine Harris/Ken Blackwell ILLEGAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT of thousands of voters!
The VERY IDEA that Hillary Clinton is NOT WORLD FAMOUS for CONFRONTING THE TORTURE REGIME of Don Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney - and, WORSE! - that she would sit silently by as America ran a STALINESQUE KANGAROO COURT to convict privates and low-ranking NCO's for FOLLOWING ORDERS from their superior officers to harass, distress, and sexually (sadistically) degrade captured prisoners!
Hillary, we American voters are SO PROUD OF YOU... a FORMER FIRST LADY turned senator NOW ON THE SIDE OF "state security uber alles" that was condemned at Nuremberg.
The VERY IDEA that Hillary has NOTHING TO SAY about the Republican Party CRUSHING the MURRAY AMENDMENT to fund $2.7 billion for veterans rehabilitation for veterans returning from the trauma of the Iraq war. (The PRIVATES convicted of Abu Ghraib "abuse," along with most Iraq war combat servicemen/women, had volunteered for Clinton's PEACETIME MILITARy - and now our cowardly Congress WON'T EVEN PAY FOR their loss of career opportunities or PTSD REHAB! - WHILE GIVING TAX CUTS TO BILLIONAIRES!)
Hillary is the greatest DISAPPOINTMENT since... well, since Al Gore ran away from "Green" protesters in the Everglades during the 2000 election, and sold Texas schoolchildren down the river during that election.
IF Hillary just wanted to be a quiet Senator from New York, that would be bad enough, given her tacit approval of the Bush administration's CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE re providing national security leading up to the 9-11 attacks on New York City and the senator's own constituents.
But clearly Senator Clinton carries the hopes and fears of MILLIONS of Democratic voters in her oh-so-coy presidential campaign.... and thus far, Hillary has ONE message to the Bush administration!
"Go ahead, Don... TORTURE ALL YOU WANT!"
"Go ahead, Dick... funnel BILLIONS in ill-begotten contracts to Halliburton. WE LOVE IT WHEN YOU ROB AMERICAN TAXPAYERS to enrich your 'former' corporation!"
"And go ahead, George...Enron, Halliburton, government SPYING on American citizens WITH NO OVERSIGHT, billion dollar contracts for "the war on terror" while you give a GREEN LIGHT to the Saudis to export radical Wahabi Islam... I'm ALL FOR THAT WHOLE AGENDA! Or, at least, I can't be bothered to find anything wrong with it, much less waste my breath CONFRONTING it publicly and consistently."
(PS: and "Good job, Hillary!" pretending that corporate American news doesn't kiss Bush admin. behind, and put Democratic VOTERS at a TERRIFIC DISADVANTAGE by having their opinions and votes CRUSHED by the Republican media machine. Millions of dollars, millions of votes, and all we get is this lame, FARCE of an "opposition party" that can't even say "Boo" when the president of the United States trashes the GENEVA CONVENTIONS and has adopted the tactics and techniques condemned after W.W.II at the Nuremberg trials.)
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Hillary's Shameful Straddling on Iraq
Robert Scheer
June 21 2006
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060620_robert_scheer_hillary_iraq/
How do you triangulate among death, hypocrisy and stupidity? Not at all logically, which is why Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarrassment not only for her but for anyone who hopes she can provide progressive leadership for the nation. If she has still not found the courage to reverse course on this disastrous war, why assume that as president she would behave any differently?
It is unconscionable that those who can accurately measure the true cost of the Iraq folly in wasted lives and resources -- more than 2,500 Americans, tens of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of billions of dollars -- dare prefer her to potential 2008 presidential election rivals John Kerry, Al Gore, Russ Feingold and John Edwards, who have all come to speak honestly of this quagmire and our need to extricate ourselves from it.
If your priority is to support an inspiring female candidate to break America's ultimate glass ceiling, why not draft Barbara Boxer? Not electable? Nonsense: The California senator thrashed her conservative GOP opponent in a reelection campaign that shunned the failed strategy of Democratic hacks and instead emphasized principle over opportunism. She proved her political integrity again this past week by voting alongside Kerry and Feingold to set a date for getting out of Iraq.
Not so Sen. Clinton, who seems determined to revive the Cold War liberalism that gave us the Vietnam War -- which, according to Robert McNamara, the brilliant Democratic war architect who later conceded he himself didn't believe in that enterprise, took more than 3 million lives.
"I do not think it is a smart strategy, either, for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment, which I think does not put enough pressure on the new Iraqi government," said Clinton last week at the "Take Back America" conference. "Nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interests."
This is pure gibberish designed to sound reasonable. The Bush administration has pressured the Iraqi government plenty, from trying to place its handpicked intelligence "assets" in power right after seizing Baghdad through the unseemly act of a sitting U.S. president dropping into Iraq last week uninvited and unannounced -- a mockery of the claim that we have transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi people.
For more than three years, the United States has micro-managed everything from turning the American taxpayer-financed occupation into a grab fest for U.S. corporate war profiteers to the failed training of the country's new security apparatus, now dominated by Shiite fanatics. Unfortunately for the great imperial Pax Americana scheme of building a pliable, secular government in Baghdad, a goal Clinton shares with the president, the Iraqi voters soundly rejected the candidates favored by the Pentagon and CIA. They chose instead the militant Shiites nurtured in the rogue nation of Iran, ever attendant to the twisted civics lessons of the ayatollahs on both sides of the border.
Predictably, the occupation by the U.S. military of a troubled Muslim nation cobbled together by European colonialists and ruled for decades by a tyrant has unleashed religious and nationalist impulses, increased the popular appeal of extremist and terror groups and destabilized the region. More clumsy "pressure" will only lead to more violent blowback, something Clinton should have known when she voted for this unjustified war in 2002.
Like Kerry, Clinton later pitifully explained that vote as a result of being "misled" by a president whom she shouldn't have trusted for a second. Kerry, however, seems to have finally rediscovered the concern he felt as a returning combat veteran, and is outraged that young Americans again are being sent to kill and be killed in a war that makes no sense, except for companies such as Halliburton and Bechtel.
Self-proclaimed "moderate" Democrats, who defend staying in Iraq, like to pretend they are the grown-ups in the argument. In reality, they are like children who have closed their ears to avoid hearing an uncomfortable truth: The longer we've stayed, the worse things have gotten, and that will continue to be the case.
It is not the Iraqi government that needs to be pressured by Americans, but rather our own. Clinton needs to stop prattling on about getting the Iraqi government to do this or that wonderful thing before we can pull out.
The country needs an honest debate about the lies that led to this war and the true costs of its continuance. Presumably those Democrats who cheered Hillary last week are eager to win back at least one branch of Congress in the midterm election in order to revitalize our Constitution's bedrock system of checks and balances and are looking to Clinton to help get them there.
But what check or balance is Sen. Clinton presenting on the most pressing issue of the day? None.
(Call it 'financial enslavement," "economic servitude," "slave-wage peons," or what have you.... the Republican agenda is now so blatantly a call for a return to the subjugation of sharecropping, segregation, and outright chattel slavery, that at least two of the dumber Republicans have been caught ON THE RECORD as advocating some form of SLAVE LABOR. A few weeks ago one Repug Congressmen called for America's Black prisoners to be put to work picking fruit; and this past week another idiot Repuglican calling for massive "detention camps" for illegal immigrants, so to use them as forced labor to build a US anti-immigration barrier wall on the Mexico border.)
Now we here at C-Dems.blgspt.com have been reluctant to bash "our own" on the Democratic side of the aisle - believe us, editing C-dems is an onerous, distasteful chore, made ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY by
#1. Al Gore's BETRAYAL of Texas schoolchildren (slashed off of preschool, after-school, and health care by Tex. Gov. George W. Bush's SLASHING of education funding so to give TAX-CUTS to Texas' wealthiest, most well-connected corporations);
#2. Joe Lieberman (and the ENTIRE Democratic Party's) BETRAYAL of African-American voters in Florida and THROUGHOUT AMERICA in the 2000 Florida stolen election;
#3. Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Govt. Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman's BETRAYAL of workers, investors, pensioners, and energy consumers RIPPED OFF by Enron FRAUD and EXTORTION during the 2002 midterm elections (in which Daschle lost his "pork barrel for a decade in a small state!" senate seat to the Bush-Rove smear campaign); and of course
#4. JOHN KERRY's BETRAYAL OF VOTERS IN OHIO and throughout America in 2004 - we don't believe Mr. Bush 'won' a majority of actual voters in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, or Iowa, and that the entire myth of a solid block of "red state voters" for Bush is nothing but effective propaganda bolstered by election fraud - none of which John Kerry pretends to notice, ALTHOUGH HE HAS BEEN CAUGHT ON TAPE SAYING THAT HE WELL KNOWS that the 2004 election was stolen.
Which brings us to Mr. Scheer's latest article, "HILLARY'S SHAMEFUL STRADDLING ON IRAQ."
We here at C-dems.blgspt.com could hardly ask for a better example of the VACILLATION and PRETENDED IGNORANCE and ENFORCED SILENCE and PUTTING A HAPPY FACE ON STOLEN ELECTIONS than is recorded in the statements, issues, and record of the Junior Senator from New York over the past 5 years.
Like Al Gore in 2000, Senator Hillary Clinton has a bad case of BUYING IN TO RIGHT-WING holy morality lynch-mob PROPAGANDA.
The very IDEA that because Righties shouted "RAPIST! LIAR! DRAFT-DODGER!" against the person of Bill Clinton makes THEM more moral and holy than other Americans. The very idea that 40 million+ voters and the hopes and needs of tens of million more citizens could be negated, ignored, overridden by the Republican impeachment process being whipped along by Tom DeLay in the House with a lame-duck Congress... DeLay once known as "HOT TUB TOM."
The very idea that we Americans should be scolded about our sexual mores by the serial adulterers and philanderers House impeachment managers, who ran the impeachment based on their "moral values" rhetoric.
THE VERY IDEA THAT HILLARY CLINTON, JOHN KERRY, and the Democratic Party would PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE the ILLEGAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT of tens of thousands of Democratic voters, in at least one case (Florida in 2000) disenfranchisement and VOTE FRAUD having stolen the presidency from the popular-vote winner, and in 2000 Diebold computerized vote rigging probably having stolen a second presidential election in a row - without the Democrat Party EVEN CALLING ATTENTION TO DIEBOLD's PROPRIETARY computer code or serial conflicts of interest or Katherine Harris/Ken Blackwell ILLEGAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT of thousands of voters!
The VERY IDEA that Hillary Clinton is NOT WORLD FAMOUS for CONFRONTING THE TORTURE REGIME of Don Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney - and, WORSE! - that she would sit silently by as America ran a STALINESQUE KANGAROO COURT to convict privates and low-ranking NCO's for FOLLOWING ORDERS from their superior officers to harass, distress, and sexually (sadistically) degrade captured prisoners!
Hillary, we American voters are SO PROUD OF YOU... a FORMER FIRST LADY turned senator NOW ON THE SIDE OF "state security uber alles" that was condemned at Nuremberg.
The VERY IDEA that Hillary has NOTHING TO SAY about the Republican Party CRUSHING the MURRAY AMENDMENT to fund $2.7 billion for veterans rehabilitation for veterans returning from the trauma of the Iraq war. (The PRIVATES convicted of Abu Ghraib "abuse," along with most Iraq war combat servicemen/women, had volunteered for Clinton's PEACETIME MILITARy - and now our cowardly Congress WON'T EVEN PAY FOR their loss of career opportunities or PTSD REHAB! - WHILE GIVING TAX CUTS TO BILLIONAIRES!)
Hillary is the greatest DISAPPOINTMENT since... well, since Al Gore ran away from "Green" protesters in the Everglades during the 2000 election, and sold Texas schoolchildren down the river during that election.
IF Hillary just wanted to be a quiet Senator from New York, that would be bad enough, given her tacit approval of the Bush administration's CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE re providing national security leading up to the 9-11 attacks on New York City and the senator's own constituents.
But clearly Senator Clinton carries the hopes and fears of MILLIONS of Democratic voters in her oh-so-coy presidential campaign.... and thus far, Hillary has ONE message to the Bush administration!
"Go ahead, Don... TORTURE ALL YOU WANT!"
"Go ahead, Dick... funnel BILLIONS in ill-begotten contracts to Halliburton. WE LOVE IT WHEN YOU ROB AMERICAN TAXPAYERS to enrich your 'former' corporation!"
"And go ahead, George...Enron, Halliburton, government SPYING on American citizens WITH NO OVERSIGHT, billion dollar contracts for "the war on terror" while you give a GREEN LIGHT to the Saudis to export radical Wahabi Islam... I'm ALL FOR THAT WHOLE AGENDA! Or, at least, I can't be bothered to find anything wrong with it, much less waste my breath CONFRONTING it publicly and consistently."
(PS: and "Good job, Hillary!" pretending that corporate American news doesn't kiss Bush admin. behind, and put Democratic VOTERS at a TERRIFIC DISADVANTAGE by having their opinions and votes CRUSHED by the Republican media machine. Millions of dollars, millions of votes, and all we get is this lame, FARCE of an "opposition party" that can't even say "Boo" when the president of the United States trashes the GENEVA CONVENTIONS and has adopted the tactics and techniques condemned after W.W.II at the Nuremberg trials.)
=======================================
Hillary's Shameful Straddling on Iraq
Robert Scheer
June 21 2006
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060620_robert_scheer_hillary_iraq/
How do you triangulate among death, hypocrisy and stupidity? Not at all logically, which is why Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarrassment not only for her but for anyone who hopes she can provide progressive leadership for the nation. If she has still not found the courage to reverse course on this disastrous war, why assume that as president she would behave any differently?
It is unconscionable that those who can accurately measure the true cost of the Iraq folly in wasted lives and resources -- more than 2,500 Americans, tens of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of billions of dollars -- dare prefer her to potential 2008 presidential election rivals John Kerry, Al Gore, Russ Feingold and John Edwards, who have all come to speak honestly of this quagmire and our need to extricate ourselves from it.
If your priority is to support an inspiring female candidate to break America's ultimate glass ceiling, why not draft Barbara Boxer? Not electable? Nonsense: The California senator thrashed her conservative GOP opponent in a reelection campaign that shunned the failed strategy of Democratic hacks and instead emphasized principle over opportunism. She proved her political integrity again this past week by voting alongside Kerry and Feingold to set a date for getting out of Iraq.
Not so Sen. Clinton, who seems determined to revive the Cold War liberalism that gave us the Vietnam War -- which, according to Robert McNamara, the brilliant Democratic war architect who later conceded he himself didn't believe in that enterprise, took more than 3 million lives.
"I do not think it is a smart strategy, either, for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment, which I think does not put enough pressure on the new Iraqi government," said Clinton last week at the "Take Back America" conference. "Nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interests."
This is pure gibberish designed to sound reasonable. The Bush administration has pressured the Iraqi government plenty, from trying to place its handpicked intelligence "assets" in power right after seizing Baghdad through the unseemly act of a sitting U.S. president dropping into Iraq last week uninvited and unannounced -- a mockery of the claim that we have transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi people.
For more than three years, the United States has micro-managed everything from turning the American taxpayer-financed occupation into a grab fest for U.S. corporate war profiteers to the failed training of the country's new security apparatus, now dominated by Shiite fanatics. Unfortunately for the great imperial Pax Americana scheme of building a pliable, secular government in Baghdad, a goal Clinton shares with the president, the Iraqi voters soundly rejected the candidates favored by the Pentagon and CIA. They chose instead the militant Shiites nurtured in the rogue nation of Iran, ever attendant to the twisted civics lessons of the ayatollahs on both sides of the border.
Predictably, the occupation by the U.S. military of a troubled Muslim nation cobbled together by European colonialists and ruled for decades by a tyrant has unleashed religious and nationalist impulses, increased the popular appeal of extremist and terror groups and destabilized the region. More clumsy "pressure" will only lead to more violent blowback, something Clinton should have known when she voted for this unjustified war in 2002.
Like Kerry, Clinton later pitifully explained that vote as a result of being "misled" by a president whom she shouldn't have trusted for a second. Kerry, however, seems to have finally rediscovered the concern he felt as a returning combat veteran, and is outraged that young Americans again are being sent to kill and be killed in a war that makes no sense, except for companies such as Halliburton and Bechtel.
Self-proclaimed "moderate" Democrats, who defend staying in Iraq, like to pretend they are the grown-ups in the argument. In reality, they are like children who have closed their ears to avoid hearing an uncomfortable truth: The longer we've stayed, the worse things have gotten, and that will continue to be the case.
It is not the Iraqi government that needs to be pressured by Americans, but rather our own. Clinton needs to stop prattling on about getting the Iraqi government to do this or that wonderful thing before we can pull out.
The country needs an honest debate about the lies that led to this war and the true costs of its continuance. Presumably those Democrats who cheered Hillary last week are eager to win back at least one branch of Congress in the midterm election in order to revitalize our Constitution's bedrock system of checks and balances and are looking to Clinton to help get them there.
But what check or balance is Sen. Clinton presenting on the most pressing issue of the day? None.
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