It is so sad, but…
I burst LOL at the computer earlier this evening. This was a headline on Google News: US Insists Iraq Coalition Still Strong. And who does Scott McClellan cite as the willing US partners in Iraq that show this international strength after withdrawal of The Phillipines? Mongolia and El Salvador!
Yeah, right Scott. This sucker is in big, big trouble. The puppet government led by a CIA asset has little legitimacy amongst Iraqis. Allawi’s crackdown, featuring talk of martial law measures, curfews, and deadly sweeping raids is greeted in kind by huge bombings right in the throat of the Green Zone.
I’ll sure be glad in January when the Democrats take office with their strong Kucinich-backed US withdrawal plan…ooops, Dennis threw in the towel on the platform–Kerry would continue the bleeding and ripping apart of American and Iraqi families.
July 16th, 2004 at 19:32
I’m disappointed about a lot of things not in the platform: Kyoto endorsement; empowering women, department of peace,etc. But I’m trying to be an idealist without illusions. There was no way they were going to pin down the party on the war in the midst of so much volatility. We progressives have to accept that first we have to slow down this runaway train. We risk permanently derailing democracy if we try to switch tracks too soon.
July 17th, 2004 at 19:03
Yeah, I more or less buy Dennis’s arguments in the linked Demoracy Now! interview. Then, later, after watching the video of the Hersh talk, I basically resigned myself that the only small glimmer of hope that any of the Bush horrors can be reversed is through election of Kerry.
Still, it troubles me greatly that my position has evolved to the “now is not the time for idealism” argument–as I have been more or less in the now very unpopular Cockburn/St. Clair camp over the last few years. But therein lies the problem: we can’t have idealism mainly because everyone who had is abandoning it.