Democrats: Hurting Republicans Rather Than Ending War?

[BurtWorm]

Received via e-mail from the Institute for Public Accuracy:



JOHN BERG, [e-mail], http://world.std.com/~jberg
Professor and chair of the government department at Suffolk
University in Boston, Berg is author of "Unequal Struggle: Class,
Gender, Race and Power in the U.S. Congress." His doctoral dissertation,
"Why the Doves Failed," analyzed the failure of Congress to end the U.S.
involvement in the Vietnam War. He said today: "The Democrats seem more
interested in hurting the Republicans than in ending the war. They come
up with things that seem designed to be embarrassing to vote against
rather than move to actually bring an end to the war in Iraq. The Bush
administration has made quite clear that it's not interested in
cooperative policy-making, so anything short of cutting off funding is
mere posturing. This was the clear lesson of the Vietnam years, when
repeated congressional resolutions calling for withdrawal were ignored
by President Nixon."

Rev. LENNOX YEARWOOD Jr., via Liz Havstad, [e-mail],
http://hiphopcaucus.org
Currently in New York City, Yearwood is president of the Hip Hop
Caucus and just wrote the piece "Race is the Tripwire for the
Progressive Movement: John Conyers and Impeachment." He said today:
"Impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney is about
accountability, and ending the war in Iraq is about humanity, and we
can't proceed on one without proceeding on the other. Otherwise, what is
to stop the executive branch from doing the same in the future? ... On
July 23, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern and I met with U.S. Rep. John
Conyers about the issue of impeachment. We delivered a petition for
impeachment with one million signatures. ...
"Impeachment begins in the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary,
which Rep. John Conyers chairs. He is in the position to begin the
impeachment process or keep it from happening, and no other human being
is in that position. In addition, Rep. Conyers is the recognized
authority on Capitol Hill both on impeachment and on the impeachable
offenses of Vice President Cheney and President Bush. He and his staff
literally wrote the book on them before the Democrats won the majority
last November." See:
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis>

TINA RICHARDS, [e-mail],
http://grassrootsamerica4us.org
Based in D.C., Richards is the director of Grass Roots America and
the mother of Marine Cloy Richards. She said today: "I attended the
MoveOn.org rally last week where Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid
discussed how they were going to 'end the war' and 'bring our troops
home' with the Levin-Reed Amendment. When I asked if they meant all the
troops, I was quickly told to 'shut up' and muscled aside by security. ...
"The Amendment provides for our troops to come home, except for the
following three reasons: (1) To protect United States and Coalition
personnel and infrastructure; (2) To provide logistical support for
Iraqi security forces; (3) To engage in counter-terrorism operations
against international terrorism groups and their local affiliates.
"I had an opportunity to ask Leader Reid about how many troops will
be abandoned in Iraq. He bluntly stated, 'we haven't spoken to the
military yet, at this stage we don't know.'
"We don't know? They have pushed and prodded for this amendment and
they don't know? If Members of Congress do not have any idea how large
of a future force this amendment calls for, then how can we as military
families possibly support it?"

[The Magistrate]

1. The Two Things Are the Same, Sir

The thing can only be ended by doing tremendous hurt to Republicans. The claim there are 'bi-partisan' things that could be got with co-operation by and with Republicans are nonesense. Until Republicans are willing to vote for things with teeth that will restrain their executive leader, and act in open defiance of the administration, nothing will materially alter the course of events. This, in turn, will never happen unless the level of pain not doing it produces is greater then the level of pain doing it will cause.

[VP505]

2. Could it be

that the Dem's need to break the RePuke logjam before that can realistic ly expect to pass any legislation that would do that??? "The Democrats seem more
interested in hurting the Republicans than in ending the war. They come
up with things that seem designed to be embarrassing to vote against
rather than move to actually bring an end to the war in Iraq."

[mrcheerful]

3. Stupid troll, did he forget that it as investagations into Water Gate that forced Nixon

into ending that war? Nixon had hoped he could save his seat as prezinut by ending the VN war. To little to late as Nixon found out.