Scathing indictment of Republican agenda in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

[dalaigh lllama]

Awesome editorial in Sunday's paper here.

War and remembrance


11/05/2006

Politicians, pollsters and the public agree: The central issue in Tuesday's midterm elections will be the war in Iraq, in all its ugly manifestations.

This is as it should be. The awful shame is that after Tuesday, George W. Bush still will have a job. So will Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and most of the rest of the arrogant and mendacious architects of the chaos.

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What is there to show for 44 months of war? We have become a nation that sanctions "alternative" forms of interrogation, torture in all but name. We are a nation whose president can order his own wiretaps, without benefit of the courts, and ignore the Congress with "signing statements" that claim to redefine the meaning of legislation. We are a nation that sacrifices young soldiers and Marines and refuses to sacrifice itself.

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Tuesday is the moment of reckoning. Remember the president's congressional accomplices and enablers, some of them arrogant bullies, some of them blind mice. Remember those who didn't challenge his specious reasoning and used patriotism to fan the flames of war. Remember those complicit in the profiteering. Remember those who clucked about our brave troops and denied them body armor, who cashed checks from contractors and watched the war gut the U.S. Army. Remember those who stood, silent — fearful of being branded as soft on terror — as the moral authority of this nation sank into bestiality and brutality at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

This election is about Iraq, all right. Remember what this nation stands for.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/443FC1A5D669089D8625721C000F09FD?OpenDocument

[spindrifter]

1. "Tuesday is the moment of reckoning."

This is absolutely outstanding! The media is finally doing it! I just hope there are enough people who will take up the stand against the "accomplices, enablers," "arrogant bullies" and "blind mice."

[Hav]

2. .

Awesome indeed and worthy of a recommendation.
I hope that more will speak out like this.

[rosesaylavee]

3. Remember those who didn't challenge his

specious reasoning and used patriotism to fan the flames of war."

I personally will never forget them. :grr:

Great editorial from a great paper.

[Straight Shooter]

4. "Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing ..."

"Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wEfcy1hIxBg
(Martina McBride video, Independence Day)

A day of reckoning, indeed. We shall be judged, on heaven and earth, come Tuesday.

[FernBell]

5. kick