Gary Hart: Democrats who support sinking deeper into the Big Muddy of Iraq

[ProSense]

Gary Hart
06.19.2006

The Judgment of History

The U.S. Senate is scheduled today to take up an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill, proposed by Senators John Kerry and Russ Feingold, that sets a deadline of July 1, 2007, for all American forces to be redeployed out of Iraq. It will not pass.

It will not pass for three reasons: Republicans want to use Iraq, and its 25,000 American casualties, as an election year bludgeon against "cut and run" Democrats; some Democrats still can't bring themselves to admit their original mistake in voting for the war; and Congressional Republicans have abandoned their constitutional duties to oversee the operations of the war.

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Thinking that they took an oath to support the president rather than an oath to uphold the Constitution, the Republican Congressional majority is hopeless. But the real spotlight of history now rests on those Congressional Democrats who support sinking deeper into the Big Muddy of Iraq out of fear of Karl Rove and greater concern for their own reelections than the lives of U.S. service personnel being destroyed by roadside bombs. What will history say of them? How will they account for their own silence, their own weakness, their own careerism?

There is something in life a lot more important than holding on, at all cost, to a Congressional seat. There is integrity, there is conviction, and there is courage. History's jury will sit in judgment today on those Democrats and will find wanting those without the conviction and courage to say "enough".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/the-judgment-of-history_b_23358.html

[blm]

1. Hart is one of the top terror experts in the world - how any of the Dems

holding out against this withdrawal plan can justify ignoring his words, will be just beyond belief.

[msongs]

2. we won! declare mission accomplished and come home to the parades

and let the iraqis deal with their own democracy based on the american casualties.

Msongs

can you sing?
www.msongs.com/vocalistwanted.htm

[blm]

3. I don't understand why Dems can't deal with this adjusted effort.

It takes into account that so many months of inaction by BushInc has gone on, and adjusts accordingly.

[blm]

4. evening kick

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[cantstandbush]

5. Hart would have made a great President IMHO. n/t

[Cha]

6. The repugs are hoping

they can use "cut and run" against the Dems..If the Dems are smart they will take this opportunity to blast bush on his NO Plan to secure the peace after they took out sadam who had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and Everything to do with bush wanting to be a War On Iraq pretzledent and stealing the Iraqi OIL. Nothing but Mistakes and Misteps in this Misbegotten War.

It will be tricky, though, with the corporatemedia in bed with busheviks.

Edit~ Jack Murtha should lead the way~

[ProSense]

7. Wave the anti-immoral invasion flag and get out of Iraq! n/t