Recent developments should give pause to those who believe in the capacity of American political culture to temper the
What became of it all? George W. Bush has made arrangements to codify the U.S. Armed Forces’ permanent presence in that criminally occupied country. The mass-murderous invasion of
The Republican nominee is the presidential candidate who has most strongly supported the occupation. It is the arch-militarist John McCain, who looks forward to
The supposedly “antiwar” Democratic front-runner Barack Obama voted to fund the invasion unconditionally in 2005 and 2006. He has never called for simply and flatly turning off the Congressional war funding spigot. He lent his powerful support to pro-invasion Democrats (including the neoconservative post-Democrat Joe Lieberman) against anti-invasion Democrats during the 2006 Congressional primaries. He cannot commit to removing all
Neither Obama nor any of the Democratic presidential candidates other than the officially marginalized (and now departed) Dennis Kucinich and an ancient Alaskan apparition named Mike Gravel (who may or may not still be on primary ballots) can seriously acknowledge the criminal, imperialist, anti-democratic, racist, and oil-driven nature of “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
The great peacenik Obama refuses to take a first (possibly nuclear) strike on
And Obama proclaims his “progressive” concern that the bungled occupation will undo the American peoples’ resolve to seize “the American moment” and “make the world over” by putting American “boots on [other nations’] ground” in “situations beyond self-defense” (Barack Obama, “Renewing American Leadership,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007) Obama is followed by war-on/of- terror hawk Hillary Clinton, who along with John Edwards (the number three Democratic presidential contender prior to resigning before the February 5th “Super Tuesday” primary) joined the minority of Congressional Democrats who supported George W. Bush’s request for Congressional authorization to attack Iraq under circumstances of his own choosing. After leaving the Senate in 2005, Edwards apologized for his invasion vote, something
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