House of Ignominy
March 24th 2007 04:08
The US House of Representatives. After voting to set a deadline in Iraq and buying votes after bribing candidates gratuitously. Even then they got only a majority of 6 votes. They are doing it at a time when the Iraq is finally showing signs of stabilizing and America can actuallyw in this war. That timing alone makes this resolution that much more despicable.
President Bush is not going to sign it and chances are it will not even pass the Senate. He has called their charade as "an act of political theatre. "
Which is what it is. Still, the whole world is watching. For enemies of the US and the free world, this will be one more simple lesson as to how to manipulate the US and get what they want. For its friends and allies, this will be a lesson not to bank on US very much.
I have been a consistent anti-anti-American. I think US is a great country. I was too young for the Vietnam betrayal or even the Kurdish betrayal in the last Gulf war. But, this is happening in my life time and it will be hard for me to believe that America stands for freedom in any way anymore.
It is a central paradox of our age that the freest country on earth should inspire and condemn less fortunate nations to perpetual slavery.
President Bush is not going to sign it and chances are it will not even pass the Senate. He has called their charade as "an act of political theatre. "
Which is what it is. Still, the whole world is watching. For enemies of the US and the free world, this will be one more simple lesson as to how to manipulate the US and get what they want. For its friends and allies, this will be a lesson not to bank on US very much.
I have been a consistent anti-anti-American. I think US is a great country. I was too young for the Vietnam betrayal or even the Kurdish betrayal in the last Gulf war. But, this is happening in my life time and it will be hard for me to believe that America stands for freedom in any way anymore.
It is a central paradox of our age that the freest country on earth should inspire and condemn less fortunate nations to perpetual slavery.
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