It should matter in even a relatively democratic society that overabundant majorities are opposed to the disastrously failed occupation of Iraq and the lies of the Killer Clowns that sent us to the War that preceded it. This should matter especially to "opposition" parties elected almost entirely to express righteous popular opposition to the war and occupation.
Capitulating to an unprecedentedly unpopular President, unpopular precisely because of his championing of the unpopular war you were elected to end is, to be blunt, stupid. Being weak and doing the wrong thing in the face of all this because you think it will insulate you from being "called weak" by unpopular zealots who are destroying the country is worse than stupid.
Blaming the victims of "Shock and Awe" bombing, armed invasion, and years of incompetent military occupation for not "getting their act together" and miraculously "stepping up" to govern themselves democratically without much dependable infrastructure, stability, sovereignty to speak of is a racist refusal of responsibility for American imperial overreach and an endless alibi for continuing the whole disastrous money-grubbing criminal enterprise.
The fact that there will be tragic and violent consequences when we finally do end our occupation of Iraq does not make any less real the tragic and violent consequences of failing to end our occupation, even if the corporations that own both the media and the military industries that are the only beneficiaries of the occupation always only direct our attention to one tragic outcome while ignoring the other.
Just in case that long sentence has already distracted you from the sentences that preceded it, remember that despite the ugly and cynical media games of these corporate-militarists the war and occupation and the President and Party that cheerlead us into it remain unprecedentedly unpopular. This should matter in a relatively democratic society.
The current Presidential oaf is an exhaustively documented serial liar and pampered thug. His lies kill hundreds of thousands of people and squander billions of dollars that should be directed to the solution of shared problems.
Everybody knows all this. Everybody knows you know it.
Do the right thing, you slick sad stupid scared shits!
Stop the Iran bombings before they start. End the occupation of Iraq. Rebuild and protect our vulnerable demolished civil liberties. Tell the truth.
And this time, if we actually manage to turn the vile tide, this time, for once, we must punish the war criminals and their corporate-militarist enablers. If we let them get away with their "Unitary Executive" and their "Secrets of State" and their confiscatory wealth concentration rebranded as "free enterprise" and their looting spree rebranded as "liberty" and their dismantling of civil liberties rebranded as "patriotism" and all the rest and we let them get away with it in the name, of all things, of "bipartisanship" and "normalcy" and "unity" and "healing wounds" you can be sure they will all just return, quicker than you could ever imagine possible, smug, self-important, buoyed by incumbent interests and surrounded by sycophantic bubbles of flattery and cash insulating them from reality, to do their worst again and again and again.
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In the years to come we can all mark the passage of the seasons on the Iraq Perpetual Calendar.
Come on, Dale, don't hold back -- tell us how you really feel!
But seriously, I share your outrage, bafflement, and disappointment about the so-called "opposition party." Remind me again, why did we elect these people? Wasn't it because they were supposed to be *different* from the Republicans?? I think we're down the rabbit hole.
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