Kill for Peace
May 3rd, 2006 at 3:55 pm by Susie
From Natasha at Pacific Views:
I can barely steady my hands enough to type right now, I am indescribably furious and can only request leniency for the inevitable rhetorical excess to follow. I checked the Daily Kos this morning to see what new petty crime was brewing, only to discover that 58 senators have something worse in the waiting than scandal and corruption. Worse than bribery. Worse than deficits my grandchildren will be lucky to see the back of. Worse than standing by while that odious gang of thugs in the White House (and btw, Rep. Hoyer, you are a cowering toad) takes unto themselves the powers of a monarchy.
They are planning to put a happy face on war with Iran, meaning the deaths of who knows how many more people, under the maddeningly innocuous name of Iran Freedom Support Act.
The bill includes a section advocating regime change, under the guise of supporting democracy. While it’s true that the US government has had a moderate budget for coup-plotting in Iran from what I’m aware is every year since the revolution, at this time, with this president, under these terms, passage of this bill would be tantamount to authorizing war with Iran. As the diarist notes, Condoleezza Rice has already been caught out sniffing for local countries from which to base an attack, which we only know because Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey have already declined to be part of the latest planned Bush regime killing spree.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is one of the signatories. And she can’t understand why party activists are so mad at her …
Over the past 18 months, we “party activists” have brought the message quite forcefully to Senator Cantwell and her staff. We have said that her vote to authorize military action in Iraq will be very difficult for the many progressive Democrats in Washington State to overlook, and that she must take all possible steps to prevent additional hostilities against other countries.
It’s not that she doesn’t understand why party activists are mad at her. She just doesn’t care.
It will be interesting to see whether many Dems turn out this fall to help with her campaign.
Rage is the only sentient reaction to this evil. This is a nightmare unfolding in slow motion.
[...] From Kos via Pacific Views via Suburban Guerilla I see that the rhetoric for an invasion of Iran is ratcheting up. [...]
See who is listed as insane.
Thanks for the heads up on this issue. I’ll be sure to write a scathing Email to Cantwell. I haven’t been to happy with her votes lately.
Why isn’t there more talk about Nepal?
I’m not from Washington, but the Republican using his pseudo run against Conrad Burns to position himself for a run against Governor Schweitzer in 2008 keeps saying that we are in Iraq for the 80% who showed up at the polls.
He doesn’t talk about Nepal.
Maybe nobody talks about the way Nepal is doing it because it is working so well without all those taxpayer funded military industrial give aways.
Cantwell seems like she doesn’t care about anything that won’t flow through Boeings pockets.
I am just so sick that we have become a society so devoid of ideas and inspiration that we allowed these bloody pyramid scheme hucksters anywhere near the policy making process.