http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22149Complicit Democrats Ripped at Pro Peace Rally
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-05-04 15:59. Media
By William Hughes
“We must guard against the...unwarranted influence of...the Military-Industrial Complex.” -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Baltimore, MD - At center/city’s Mt. Vernon Square, on May 3, 2007, a rally and march was held to protest the Bush-Cheney Gang’s Iraqi War and the insane “Surge” strategy to perpetuate that conflict. It took place in the shadow of the first monument built in this country to honor the memory of America’s most beloved patriot, George Washington. State Delegate Jill P. Carter, a member of Maryland’s House of Delegates, spoke at the event. A rising star in the political arena, the African-American leader said: “It is politically schizophrenic to say that you want to bring the troops home and that you want to end the war, and then to send 1,300 new troops from Maryland to Iraq.” She was referring to the conduct of U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin, both Democrats, who have persistently voted to fund the war. “This is especially so,” she added, “when we have so many problems right here in Maryland and in Baltimore City.”
Delegate Carter (D-41st District) said she would urge her fellow Democrats
and Baltimore City’s Mayor, Sheila Dixon, and Maryland’s Governor, Marty O’Malley, “to put their actions where their mouths are, and if they really want to end the war, to take the step necessary to do it.” Activist Maria Allwine, one of the event’s organizers, told me: “We have advised U.S. Senators Mikulski and Cardin, that there is no way that they can possibly believe that they are supporting the troops by funding their continued deaths and woundings...Cardin campaigned as an antiwar candidate , which was a farce. He should be ashamed of himself.”
The spirited protest action was hosted by the “Pledge of Resistance” group. It comes four years after the Liar-in-Chief, President George W. Bush, had falsely claimed: “Mission Accomplished!” In vetoing a recent war funding Bill that set “benchmarks for success in Iraq,” the unhinged Bush asserted that he was listening to his “commanders on the ground.” This is yet another bold-faced contemptible whopper by the serial deceiver. Here is Major General Paul D. Eaton, USA, Retired rebutting of Bush’s latest damnable lie: “I could not sit idly by as you told the American people today that your veto was based on the ‘recommendation of military men.’ Your administration ignored the advice of our military’s finest minds before and I see ‘no evidence’ that you are listening to them, now!” (1)
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