130 More U.S. Troops to Iraq...There's Always Going to be an Excuse - This is Classic

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10. Kerry making a speech 15 hours ago claiming no more troops to Iraq

. . . hours later, there we are, sending in more troops.

But don't worry, they're only 'advisers' and 'temporary.'

But, hey, don't speak up here, lest you be accused of being a republican or wanting Obama impeached, or wanting Democrats to lose in the midterms . . . on and on.

I have a solid record of opposing this kind of military activity; a solid fucking record. I came to DU in 2003 because there was a solid bloc of members here opposed to war in Iraq. I spent many sleepless days working my regular job at night and reading and writing for hours on end by day when I needed to rest.

Now there are these surrogates who can't find any more principle than defending the political establishment, hurling insults at those with values enough to oppose U.S. military intervention, no matter what the politics dictates.

Thousands of people in the streets when an Iraq invasion and occupation was just a twinkle in Bush's eye. Now you can't get a quorum to even talk about it, save to lecture us that the politicians know best . . .and they wonder why I turn away from the politics; why I reject it as an organizing principle. Ridicule, blind faith, and then outright indifference. This isn't what I found when I stumbled into this site over a decade ago . . .