Post #59

Subject: Blood is on their hands.

The Republican Senators who are blocking a debate on different resolutions about the “New Way Forward” are cowards. We expect a public accounting. Do you support the slaughter of American troops in Iraq? Yes? No? Why?

We expect Senators to go on the record. Republican Senators apparently lack the you-know-whats to say what they believe. By hiding behind a filibuster, those Senators allow us to assume the worse.

Why would anyone support the continuous and seemingly endless slaughter?

“The Iraq War IS the War on Terror.” The Iraq War is NOT the War on Terror – indeed, the Iraq War is a drain on and a diversion from the War on Terror and making us less secure. The War on Terror is a race against time – we need to convince those who want to do us harm that there is a better way BEFORE they do us harm. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. The Iraq War itself is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, our real enemy.

“I owe loyalty to the office of the President/a Republican President/George W. Bush.” I think that kind of loyalty is misplaced – Senators ought to be loyal to those who elected ‘em. I got an e-mail from an Iraq veteran: “I feel obligated to give my brothers and sisters in combat the best chance to succeed. This means that I can no longer exist on blind faith – I must see answers and actions.”

The important thing now is to manage the aftermath of the greatest blunder in our history. From MSNBC’s “First Read:”

“In a speech this morning at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC, Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson laid out his foreign policy vision, calling for a ‘new realism’ to restore America's leadership in the world. He began by criticizing what he said is the Bush Administration's dogmatic approach to international affairs – which he said has squandered America's military power, depleted its financial resources, emboldened its enemies, and isolated its friends. ‘So America needs to take a different path… We must work with our friends, our enemies, and everyone in between.’ Playing off of Bush's memorable ‘axis of evil’ line, Richardson also called for an ‘axis of reason’ to confront urgent global problems.”

And Republicans say…!?! “It’s not our place to have a clue.” Well, maybe the Senate is not your place either.