Five Years of War in Iraq
President Bush still doesn't understand the strategic blunder he and his enablers in the US Congress made in invading Iraq. After five years of war, 4000 US deaths, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, a trillion dollar impact on our economy--after all of the reasons given for going to war were proven to be either overstated fears or intentional lies--we are less safe.
The really shocking thing is how John McCain shows the same type of strategic and historical ignorance--as evidenced by his idiotic gaffe on Iran yesterday.
More than 70 percent of Americans get how much this war has harmed our economy. The fundamental absurdity of the Iraq governing cronies holding a surplus of oil revenue as the US incurs huge debt is one of the great unspoken issues of 2008.
No wonder the GOP wants to retreat into racial fear-mongering and distortions. But this is exactly the kind of simple minded thinking that got us into this debacle in the first place.
The really shocking thing is how John McCain shows the same type of strategic and historical ignorance--as evidenced by his idiotic gaffe on Iran yesterday.
More than 70 percent of Americans get how much this war has harmed our economy. The fundamental absurdity of the Iraq governing cronies holding a surplus of oil revenue as the US incurs huge debt is one of the great unspoken issues of 2008.
No wonder the GOP wants to retreat into racial fear-mongering and distortions. But this is exactly the kind of simple minded thinking that got us into this debacle in the first place.
posted by Faithful Progressive at 1:21 PM
2 Comments:
Obama speech today
"We have a security gap when candidates say they will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, but refuse to follow him where he actually goes. What we need in our next Commander in Chief is not a stubborn refusal to acknowledge reality or empty rhetoric about 3AM phone calls. What we need is a pragmatic strategy that focuses on fighting our real enemies, rebuilding alliances, and renewing our engagement with the world"s people."
On the race wedge:
The media perpetuates racial division. "Will white men vote for Obama? Did he go far enough in denouncing Rev Wright?"
Obama who was raised by his white relatives knows that many white folks have people in their own families (myself included) who at one time or another have made racist comments. I suspect that many of the same people who are asking if he went far enough have such people in their own families to say nothing of those who are sure he didn't go far enough.
Have they disowned their relatives?
Can we all grow up and be honest?
Obama is a bridge between the races who could unite America in a way it never has been.
His speech yesterday truly made me proud to be an American.
Yet the dividers in the media as much as the far-right flamethrowers will keep focusing on race as a way of dividing those whose common interests their corporate sponsors fear.
Post a Comment
<< Home