Helen Thomas on Democrats and Iraq

[existentialist]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/printer_083005S.shtml




Democrats Still Backing Senseless War
By Helen Thomas
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tuesday 30 August 2005

Washington - It's time for the Democratic Party to take a courageous stand and call for the withdrawal of troops from the senseless war in Iraq.



Would the Republicans have hesitated to challenge the Democrats if the shoe were on the other foot? Did the opposition party give President Clinton any slack while he was in office?



Not all Democrats are so clueless. In an opinion article on Wednesday in The Washington Post, former Sen. Gary Hart, D-Col., wrote that "history will deal with George W. Bush and the neoconservatives who misled a mighty nation into a flawed war that is draining the finest military in the world ... diverting Guard and Reserve forces that should be on the front line of homeland defense, shredding international alliances that prevailed in two world wars and the Cold War ... and weakening America's national security."

But he is also tough on his own party and asks: "What will history say about an opposition party that stands silent while all this goes on?"

[Carolab]

1. Great piece. Really lays it out.

Democrats--take a freaking stand against this mess!!!

[wli]

2. The Republican Party is a terrorist organization.

If we take care of them as such our problems would be vastly mitigated.

[alfredo]

3. Oh Helen please keep the pressure on the our publics servants

Maybe someday they will listen.