Very Courageous! Congressional Dems FINALLY find their voice- to blast Iraq PM for criticizing Israel BOMBINGS in Lebanon??!
In our previous post, we wrote that ALL you need realize to understand how completely the Democratic Party has CRASHED on SO MANY ISSUES, issues at the very core of 100 years of Democratic/progressive/liberal progress (voting rights, union rights, health care, government openness vs. secrecy, inequity vs. economic fairness, pollution, environmental protections, foreign aid and reproductive rights... THE ENTIRE RAFT of dem/progressive/liberal agenda issues)...
....ALL you need realize to understand the CRASH of the Democrat Party on these and 1,000 other important issues, is to understand that the entire top strata of the Democrat Party is NOW COMPLETELY IN THRALL to the neo-con agenda.
That is, the Leo Straussian University of Chicago "neo-conservative" agenda, AKA "The voters are ignorant peons who don't know what is best for them, and it is the duty of political leadership to fool the public into following policies that will mean the greater national good."
For all its academic sounding principles, the Straussian neo-con agenda is no more and no less than warmed over hyper-nationalism. If "fascism" and "the Nazis" is too much of an over-the-top comparison, how about pre-WWII Japan, where, once the Imperial Japanese Army got rolling with its Manchuria and Korea conquests, to stand up and oppose the militarist, imperialists, expansionists warmongers in Japan was an absolute, surefire, no-option invitation to an assassin's bullet.
And so it is today that Iraq's tame Prime Minister (the one who greeted Mr. Bush on moment's notice when the US president flew in to the sovereign nation of Iraq, unannounced) came to the US capitol and White House, in defiance of "the Arab Street" in Iraq and elsewhere, an "Arab street" outraged over US support for Israel's bombing of entire blocks of apartment buildings in downtown urban districts of Lebanon. Mr. Malik goes where his master's leash pulls him and, just to pour infamy on scorn, along come our brave Congressional Democrats.
You know, the ones who CAN'T or WON'T SPEAK UP as the FEMA director orders hundred-dollar dinners in a 5-star Baton Rouge restaurant as New Orleans flooding victims are dying, under clear skies, days after Hurricane Katrina left the area.
You know, the Congressional Democrats who can't find their voice when it is reported that $90 BILLION - - - that is, NINETY-BILLION DOLLARS - is MISSING from Iraqi reconstruction funds.
You know, the Congressional Democrats who can't seem to find a lick of national TV media exposure as Secretary of War Rumsfeld (and Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush, the "Commander in Chief") run KANGAROO-COURT MILITARY TRIBUNALS to RAILROAD female volunteers for FOLLOWING ORDERS in the systematic "ABUSE," sadism, and degradation of captured Iraqi prisoners, as if scapegoating two female privates and their immediate noncom superiors absolves the United States of all responsibility for TORTURE carried out in US prisons (and by US-hired surrogates in the Arab world and in FORMER STALIN PRISONS in Eastern Europe).
You know, the courageous Congressional Democrats who would rather CHOKE than mention "Diebold."
(Much less, heaven forbid, "stolen elections.")
You know, the Congressional Democrats who join Dick Cheney and George W. Bush in thinking it is some terrific joke as the number of US MERCURY RETARDED BABIES goes up, a statistical certainty what with relaxed environmental mercury regulations. (Not to mention all those Depleted Uranium Iraqi babies.. AND American babies... born of Iraq-tour-of-duty veterans exposed to the omnipresent dust from DU ammunition fire in Iraq.)
You know, the brave Congressional Democrats who (as the previous post mentioned) would rather HIBERNATE than CONFRONT the RADICAL, REACTIONARY RIGHT-WING jihad against public education, birth-control, the morning-after-pill, or even the teaching of evolution. (We won't even include the word "abortion" in the previous sentence, because we wouldn't want our brave-heart Dems to accidentally foul themselves.)
No, on these and ONE THOUSAND OTHER ISSUES, the Congressional Democrats and Senate Democrats are AWOL, AS QUIET AS A CHURCH MOUSE scurrying for its church-mouse mouse-hole.
BUT, when Iraqi PM Maliki (someone who knows a thing or two about bombs and 'counter-terror' bombing missions) DARES to mention that it is AMERICAN-made BOMBS and missiles falling on Lebanon.... ALL OF A SUDDEN THOSE COWERING DEMOCRATS FIND THEIR VOICE, to criticize Maliki for "WORK[ing] AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES" !!
HALLELUJAH!
PRAISE THE LORD! and make some more ammunition.. Congress LOVES NOTHING BETTER than giving Israel BILLIONS of US tax dollars to purchase billions in US arms and weaponry, so to keep American defense contractors, their factories, and the supporting American industry rolling. Forever. Amen.
Or, as Slim Pickens would say, "YEE-HAW!"
Quick! Let's mint some congressional medals, and PIN THEM ON THE CHESTS OF THOSE BRAVE, COURAGEOUS DEMOCRATS!
. << House Democrats are demanding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not be allowed to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday unless he apologizes for condemning "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon.
In a letter being circulated among their colleagues, party leaders including Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky say, "We are unaware of any prior instance where a world leader who actively worked against the interests of the United States was afforded such an honor." >>
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bonus citation: over at AlterNet.org, the post the video of David Sirota capturing New York Times NEO-CON "free trade" shill THOMAS FRIEDMAN explaining that HE HAS NO IDEA of the conditions within the CAFTA Caribbean Free Trade Agreement, "You know, I just wrote a column supporting the CAFTA Caribbean Free Trade Agreement, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WAS IN IT, I just knew two-words, 'FREE TRADE.""
http://alternet.org/blogs/video/39421/
Thomas Friedman is the textbook or iconic example of a formerly "liberal" leaning New York Times writer now completely, wholeheartedly, unabashedly EMBRACING the neo-con agenda as it pertains to unrestrained corporatism under the moniker "Free Trade." (Like "Free Enterprise," "free trade" isn't "FREE" if you can't compete against sweatshop labor with NO enviromental, labor, or financial regulations in poverty-stricken non-industrialized nations. Go see "American Patriots rebel against East India Co. 'free enterprise' Royal trade license (monopoly), aka "the Boston Tea Party.") In the early 1990's - the era of the Bush1 recession in which Right-Wing militias were planning to take on the ZOG (zionist occupatioin government), Timmy McVeigh started planning his federal building bombing mission, and uber-Right-Wing talk show host G. Gordon Liddy was instructing would be militia 'freedom/patriot' resistance fighters to "AIM AT THE HEAD OF JACK-BOOTED FEDERAL AGENTS - well, back in the early 1990's Tom Friedman wrote an oped column actually TOUTING THE BENEFITS of big government (made possible by taxation and government spending). Friedman wrote on the anarchy and daily mass-murder in the Liberian capital, of warlords and their hoped-up, terrifying child armies. That was then. Now, American big business couldn't find a better "FREE TRADE" shill, if GE engineers got together and designed one from scratch.) And for all of his "big business, free-trade" bonafides, Friedman isn't nearly as hawkish as his fellow neo-con chickenhawks, although that comparison isn't saying much.)
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Maliki's Testy Visit: Is This What Our Troops Are Dying For?
Arianna Huffington
07.25.2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/malikis-testy-visit-is-_b_25790.html
House Democrats are demanding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not be allowed to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday unless he apologizes for condemning "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon.
In a letter being circulated among their colleagues, party leaders including Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky say, "We are unaware of any prior instance where a world leader who actively worked against the interests of the United States was afforded such an honor."
That's all well and good, but it kind of misses the larger point, don't you think? Forget about standing on ceremony and whether Maliki is worthy of the "high honor" of standing at the Speaker's podium; I want to know how Congress can justify having our soldiers continue to die for a government that, as is becoming increasingly clear, doesn't want us there.
Instead of holding a press conference demanding an apology, how about holding one demanding that we take our troops out of harm's way as soon as we can?
During his visit to the White House today, Maliki is expected to push for an end to legal immunity for U.S. troops and broader amnesty for Iraqi insurgents -- both legitimate claims for a sovereign government ("Let freedom reign!").
What more, Maliki wants to "maintain strong ties to Iran," has sided with Hezbollah in the current hostilities with Israel, and has pledged $35 million in aid to Lebanon (where is that money coming from?). And then we have the speaker of the Iraqi Parliament saying "I personally think whoever kills an American soldier in defense of his country would, have a statue built for him in that country. The parties that we cannot conciliate with are those who deliberately killed an Iraqi citizen."
So this is what over 2,500 American have died for, what over 18,500 Americans have been wounded for, what the American people have spent over $320 billion helping create: a government that makes nice with Iran, backs Hezbollah, and some of whose members think the killers of American soldiers deserve a statue? We can't bring back those lives, heal those wounds, or recoup that money, but we can say enough is enough.
In Fiasco, his damning new book about the Bush administration's tragic bungling of Iraq, Thomas Ricks quotes a colonel assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority unforgettably describing his team's mission as "pasting feathers together, hoping for a duck." Just how many more Americans have to die in the vain attempt to turn feathers into a duck? Especially a duck that wants to waddle side by side with Hezbollah and Iran.
....ALL you need realize to understand the CRASH of the Democrat Party on these and 1,000 other important issues, is to understand that the entire top strata of the Democrat Party is NOW COMPLETELY IN THRALL to the neo-con agenda.
That is, the Leo Straussian University of Chicago "neo-conservative" agenda, AKA "The voters are ignorant peons who don't know what is best for them, and it is the duty of political leadership to fool the public into following policies that will mean the greater national good."
For all its academic sounding principles, the Straussian neo-con agenda is no more and no less than warmed over hyper-nationalism. If "fascism" and "the Nazis" is too much of an over-the-top comparison, how about pre-WWII Japan, where, once the Imperial Japanese Army got rolling with its Manchuria and Korea conquests, to stand up and oppose the militarist, imperialists, expansionists warmongers in Japan was an absolute, surefire, no-option invitation to an assassin's bullet.
And so it is today that Iraq's tame Prime Minister (the one who greeted Mr. Bush on moment's notice when the US president flew in to the sovereign nation of Iraq, unannounced) came to the US capitol and White House, in defiance of "the Arab Street" in Iraq and elsewhere, an "Arab street" outraged over US support for Israel's bombing of entire blocks of apartment buildings in downtown urban districts of Lebanon. Mr. Malik goes where his master's leash pulls him and, just to pour infamy on scorn, along come our brave Congressional Democrats.
You know, the ones who CAN'T or WON'T SPEAK UP as the FEMA director orders hundred-dollar dinners in a 5-star Baton Rouge restaurant as New Orleans flooding victims are dying, under clear skies, days after Hurricane Katrina left the area.
You know, the Congressional Democrats who can't find their voice when it is reported that $90 BILLION - - - that is, NINETY-BILLION DOLLARS - is MISSING from Iraqi reconstruction funds.
You know, the Congressional Democrats who can't seem to find a lick of national TV media exposure as Secretary of War Rumsfeld (and Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush, the "Commander in Chief") run KANGAROO-COURT MILITARY TRIBUNALS to RAILROAD female volunteers for FOLLOWING ORDERS in the systematic "ABUSE," sadism, and degradation of captured Iraqi prisoners, as if scapegoating two female privates and their immediate noncom superiors absolves the United States of all responsibility for TORTURE carried out in US prisons (and by US-hired surrogates in the Arab world and in FORMER STALIN PRISONS in Eastern Europe).
You know, the courageous Congressional Democrats who would rather CHOKE than mention "Diebold."
(Much less, heaven forbid, "stolen elections.")
You know, the Congressional Democrats who join Dick Cheney and George W. Bush in thinking it is some terrific joke as the number of US MERCURY RETARDED BABIES goes up, a statistical certainty what with relaxed environmental mercury regulations. (Not to mention all those Depleted Uranium Iraqi babies.. AND American babies... born of Iraq-tour-of-duty veterans exposed to the omnipresent dust from DU ammunition fire in Iraq.)
You know, the brave Congressional Democrats who (as the previous post mentioned) would rather HIBERNATE than CONFRONT the RADICAL, REACTIONARY RIGHT-WING jihad against public education, birth-control, the morning-after-pill, or even the teaching of evolution. (We won't even include the word "abortion" in the previous sentence, because we wouldn't want our brave-heart Dems to accidentally foul themselves.)
No, on these and ONE THOUSAND OTHER ISSUES, the Congressional Democrats and Senate Democrats are AWOL, AS QUIET AS A CHURCH MOUSE scurrying for its church-mouse mouse-hole.
BUT, when Iraqi PM Maliki (someone who knows a thing or two about bombs and 'counter-terror' bombing missions) DARES to mention that it is AMERICAN-made BOMBS and missiles falling on Lebanon.... ALL OF A SUDDEN THOSE COWERING DEMOCRATS FIND THEIR VOICE, to criticize Maliki for "WORK[ing] AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES" !!
HALLELUJAH!
PRAISE THE LORD! and make some more ammunition.. Congress LOVES NOTHING BETTER than giving Israel BILLIONS of US tax dollars to purchase billions in US arms and weaponry, so to keep American defense contractors, their factories, and the supporting American industry rolling. Forever. Amen.
Or, as Slim Pickens would say, "YEE-HAW!"
Quick! Let's mint some congressional medals, and PIN THEM ON THE CHESTS OF THOSE BRAVE, COURAGEOUS DEMOCRATS!
. << House Democrats are demanding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not be allowed to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday unless he apologizes for condemning "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon.
In a letter being circulated among their colleagues, party leaders including Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky say, "We are unaware of any prior instance where a world leader who actively worked against the interests of the United States was afforded such an honor." >>
======================================
bonus citation: over at AlterNet.org, the post the video of David Sirota capturing New York Times NEO-CON "free trade" shill THOMAS FRIEDMAN explaining that HE HAS NO IDEA of the conditions within the CAFTA Caribbean Free Trade Agreement, "You know, I just wrote a column supporting the CAFTA Caribbean Free Trade Agreement, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WAS IN IT, I just knew two-words, 'FREE TRADE.""
http://alternet.org/blogs/video/39421/
Thomas Friedman is the textbook or iconic example of a formerly "liberal" leaning New York Times writer now completely, wholeheartedly, unabashedly EMBRACING the neo-con agenda as it pertains to unrestrained corporatism under the moniker "Free Trade." (Like "Free Enterprise," "free trade" isn't "FREE" if you can't compete against sweatshop labor with NO enviromental, labor, or financial regulations in poverty-stricken non-industrialized nations. Go see "American Patriots rebel against East India Co. 'free enterprise' Royal trade license (monopoly), aka "the Boston Tea Party.") In the early 1990's - the era of the Bush1 recession in which Right-Wing militias were planning to take on the ZOG (zionist occupatioin government), Timmy McVeigh started planning his federal building bombing mission, and uber-Right-Wing talk show host G. Gordon Liddy was instructing would be militia 'freedom/patriot' resistance fighters to "AIM AT THE HEAD OF JACK-BOOTED FEDERAL AGENTS - well, back in the early 1990's Tom Friedman wrote an oped column actually TOUTING THE BENEFITS of big government (made possible by taxation and government spending). Friedman wrote on the anarchy and daily mass-murder in the Liberian capital, of warlords and their hoped-up, terrifying child armies. That was then. Now, American big business couldn't find a better "FREE TRADE" shill, if GE engineers got together and designed one from scratch.) And for all of his "big business, free-trade" bonafides, Friedman isn't nearly as hawkish as his fellow neo-con chickenhawks, although that comparison isn't saying much.)
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Maliki's Testy Visit: Is This What Our Troops Are Dying For?
Arianna Huffington
07.25.2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/malikis-testy-visit-is-_b_25790.html
House Democrats are demanding that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not be allowed to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday unless he apologizes for condemning "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon.
In a letter being circulated among their colleagues, party leaders including Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky say, "We are unaware of any prior instance where a world leader who actively worked against the interests of the United States was afforded such an honor."
That's all well and good, but it kind of misses the larger point, don't you think? Forget about standing on ceremony and whether Maliki is worthy of the "high honor" of standing at the Speaker's podium; I want to know how Congress can justify having our soldiers continue to die for a government that, as is becoming increasingly clear, doesn't want us there.
Instead of holding a press conference demanding an apology, how about holding one demanding that we take our troops out of harm's way as soon as we can?
During his visit to the White House today, Maliki is expected to push for an end to legal immunity for U.S. troops and broader amnesty for Iraqi insurgents -- both legitimate claims for a sovereign government ("Let freedom reign!").
What more, Maliki wants to "maintain strong ties to Iran," has sided with Hezbollah in the current hostilities with Israel, and has pledged $35 million in aid to Lebanon (where is that money coming from?). And then we have the speaker of the Iraqi Parliament saying "I personally think whoever kills an American soldier in defense of his country would, have a statue built for him in that country. The parties that we cannot conciliate with are those who deliberately killed an Iraqi citizen."
So this is what over 2,500 American have died for, what over 18,500 Americans have been wounded for, what the American people have spent over $320 billion helping create: a government that makes nice with Iran, backs Hezbollah, and some of whose members think the killers of American soldiers deserve a statue? We can't bring back those lives, heal those wounds, or recoup that money, but we can say enough is enough.
In Fiasco, his damning new book about the Bush administration's tragic bungling of Iraq, Thomas Ricks quotes a colonel assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority unforgettably describing his team's mission as "pasting feathers together, hoping for a duck." Just how many more Americans have to die in the vain attempt to turn feathers into a duck? Especially a duck that wants to waddle side by side with Hezbollah and Iran.
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