James Boyce: The Line In The Sand

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-boyce/the-line-in-the-sand_b_37277.html

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Even as one who has seen up close the worse that this administration and the current neo-conservative wing of what was once the Republican party has to offer, I too have been lulled to sleep, distracted by the real world, and work and family and life.

But I'm awake now.

We all need to be.

Because it is not left wing hysterics or blog rant to suggest that the next thirty days are critical to our country, and our future.

This is not just chatter, and I'm not just saying that now is critical to sound dramatic. I am saying it because I truly believe that, as they say on Sunday afternoons, it all comes down to this. It's not just important, not just let's have some hearings and dig into contractor corruption, but a mind-boggling critical time.

You see before there may still have been some lingering doubt about what was happening in Iraq, before there might have been some question about the President's true intentions and quality of vision.

Those doubts are gone now.

President Bush will escalate the war in Iraq in a double-down measure of vanity and desperation. He is playing not with the house money but with the lives of our children and the future of their children. The surge will bleed into escalation and permanence.

Bush will increase the force in Iraq by 20,000 to 50,000 soldiers because he thinks that by positioning it as "helping our army that is stretched so thin" he can make it political suicide for anyone to oppose him. It's not. It's the duty of each and every one of us. He wants to escalate and elevate the conflict into a regional war. He is going for broke with our future.

The question is will we let him?

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[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Impeach, Impeach, Impeach

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