Commentary: Can't we do better than this?

[unhappycamper]

Commentary: Can't we do better than this?
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, September 5, 2007


Dulce bellum inexpertis. War is sweet only to those who have no experience of it.

Maybe that bit from Erasmus can help explain why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney not only won’t consider any way out of Iraq but seek to condemn our troops to fight there for years to come.

This week President Bush made one of his regular, super-secret photo op visits to the troops in Iraq and, considering that they're armed and dangerous, even let slip that he might or may consider reducing the number of Americans in that miserable country and miserable war. Might. Maybe. Someday. But only from a position of strength. Somewhere close to success or victory.

~snip~

The Democrats will whine and moan and bloviate and then, like lapdogs, they'll roll over and approve the money, proving that they're even bigger cowards than Bush or Cheney are.

In the end, there’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats, or only subtle superficial differences in their hypocrisies. When it comes to getting their snouts in the trough of public and private and corporate money, they all spring from the same porcine roots.

Principles, courage moral and otherwise, a passion for both the Constitution and the citizenry, all seem to have skipped this bunch, both on the Hill and those who seek to replace Mr. Bush in the big white house.


Rest of article at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/19480.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. nail? meet hammer. Galloway hits it on the nose, as it were, if I may.

[Demeter]

2. Not Without Violence, It Appears

Sweet reason has no power any longer.

The law is not honored, even in the breach.

Voting has been eliminated as a barrier to abuse of power.

Importuning one's elected representatives is a complete waste of time--they aren't listening, and they don't care, either.

Yup. Until enough people are willing (or are driven) to cross that last barrier that separates civility from the jungle, we are stuck, waiting for somebody in authority to show a little spine and initiative.

I think we will be driven into violence by our oppressors, myself. When they start in on us, we will resist with everything we have learned the hard way. It won't be pretty. It will be wasteful. A lot of futures will be cut short. We may even lose.

Personally, I'm hoping the Secret Service does its duty to the nation and ends this regime.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. was it stalin who said, it matters not who votes, but who counts the votes?

more applicable here and now than ever before.

[Demit]

3. Nice turn of phrase that is dead-on—

"...the current struggle for the presidential nominations of the two major parties is going to produce only the two tallest midgets." I'm afraid he's right.

[Oldenuff]

5. EX-CELL-ENT article

"the two tallest midgets"..."lapdogs".."snouts in the trough"...what a stroke of genius,and so very very true.(sad as well)The 2 party system working as it was intended.:sarcasm: