I'm sitting here watching the Senate Iraq hearings on C-SPAN, hearing one former General after another talk about what a disaster Iraq is, and how there is really no decent way out.
Every representative, and every senator that voted to authorize this colossal mistake needs to swallow their pride, and admit that they screwed up, and admit that their judgment can't be trusted. They should resign from office and promise never to run for public office again.
If you want to be hard-hearted about it, then
forget the hundreds of thousands of lives that have been sacrificed for this monumental blunder.
Forget about the trillions of dollars that have found their way into the pockets of greedy, corrupt arms dealers, and other assorted friends of the regime. Forget about all the food that money could have bought for the hungry. Forget all the education that money could have paid for. Forget all those rickety bridges that could have been repaired.
Forget how this economy has been sold out; how the American dollar has been abandoned. Forget how this country is now teetering on the greatest disaster since the Great Depression.
If you are really that cruel, just forget about all those innocent American, Iraqi, and British sons and daughters that made the ultimate sacrifice -- for a lie. Just forget about all their loved ones, their sons and daughters, wives and husbands, and mothers and fathers, and friends. Just forget about them! Just forget about those
millions of people that have had their hearts torn out to defend a lie!
I dare you!
How many of you, as of October 2002, still "trusted" President Bush? Tell the truth. Who here trusted George W. Bush in October of 2002?
Hillary Clinton said this on October 10, 2002, as she voted to give Bush the authorization to invade Iraq:
I will take the President at his word that he will try hard to pass a UN resolution and will seek to avoid war, if at all possible.
Did
you trust George W. Bush, as of October 10, 2002?
Really? On what did you base that trust?
In contrast, around the same time, Barack Obama said the following:
“I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors. … I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that” “invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale” “without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.“
Just think, if we, as a country, would have sided with the then obscure Illinois state legislator.
Maybe a million more innocent people would still be alive. Millions more would still have their homes, and millions further would still have basic services that all people deserve.
If we had relied on the judgment of that obscure Illinois legislator, maybe we would still have that basic human right guaranteed by the Magna Carta, something called
habeas corpus.
Most of us can agree, I think, that the criminals that have betrayed and sold out our basic Constitutional rights deserve to be held to account. (Well, but, for the trolls infesting this place for so long.)
Tell the truth. Who do you think is most likely to see that Justice is carried out? The community organizer from the meanest streets of Chicago, or the corporate lawyer from the suburbs of Chicago?
Tell me one reason that Americans should choose Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.
There is NO valid reason whatsoever.
Tell the truth, and stay in the church.
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