Reply #148: I don't know what Kerry or Clinton think, and I don't think it...

[Peace Patriot]

...matters, as to what WE need to do now--get back our right to vote.

Clinton, and to a great degree, Kerry, are very much a part of the Establishment--the military-industrial complex that approves of the war in Iraq, and wanted war, in order to keep the huge private military corporations larded with public money, to grab and control the last supplies of easily obtainable oil, and to surround Israel with US military protection. If Kerry were against it, he would have voted against it, and made the point THEN that the President does not have, and never did have, the power to declare war. I'm not saying he wouldn't have been a far, far better president than Bush. I think he would have been. That's why I supported him. (He's not a damn thief, for one thing--and would have run a decent government, maybe even a great one, as US governments go).

So...for all I know...Clinton, Kerry and the Democratic Party pro-war leadership may have decided not to oppose the fraudulent election system, and not to ight the massive and quite predictable fraud, when it occured, because they would just as soon Bush take the rap for the 100,000+ Iraqi deaths, the 1,300 US deaths, the 10,000 US wounded, the war crimes and the absolute disaster that is Iraq.

You may have noticed that Kerry NEVER criticized Bush's invasion of Iraq. He only criticized Bush not providing sufficient troops to prevent chaos, and Bush's handling of post-war Iraq. This is a quite typical Democratic leadership stance.

I said above that I thought Kerry had a stark choice between revolution and shutting up. I still think that's true. But I think he could have won that revolution--and without bloodshed--if the Democrats had really wanted to. The BushCons, who seem to have all the power, actually have very brittle and vulnerable power. They do not have the support of the American people--as polls are time and again showing, on every issue, and on Bush himself. The majority of the country would have cheered the Democrats on, and would have supported them.

That's the sad part.

But I don't think it's cowardice. I think it's that most of the leadership approves of the war.