Reply #16: Democrats in Congress keeps trying to pass legislation to bring the troops home. [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

Congressional Republicans and/or Bush keep preventing them from doing it. McCain has never voted for a single resolution to bring relief for the men and women on their third or fourth tour of duty.

Before the Dems got control of Congress, they could not even bring up issues like this.

Recall that up until 2005, the Bush administration had a complete lock down on the news media and anyone who tried to suggest that war was not a good thing was mocked and scorned. W. lost the news media only because he broke a promise to deliver unlimited media mergers and acquisitions--and also because the Pentagon got fed up with the plan to invade Iran and instructed GE and its propaganda organ NBC/MSNBC to begin anti-war coverage.

So, basically in 2005, the Dems finally had a chance to start telling Americans that the war was not a good idea. The DSMs finally started to get covered. The NYTs broke the domestic spying story it had been sitting on for over a year in the winter of 2005. These things gave the Dems some power so that they could finally take back Congress by the slimmest of margins---not veto proof--in late 2006.

Now, they have a Congress in which dumb ass Republicans who would rather shoot themselves in the foot politically than do the right thing if it means letting the Dems "score a victory" (God, how I despise Billy Kristol) block them at every move, knowing that it means the death of countless Iraqis and the deaths of US soldiers, too. Bush-Cheney want an endless US military presence so that the spawn of Standard Oil can exploit Iraq's oil which David Rockefeller believes became his (lets's be truthful, His) when Great Britain passed the baton to the U.S. The oil companies' lackeys, the NeoCons, are willing to see Iranians, Pakistanis and Israelis go up in mushroom clouds if it gets Exxon, Chevron and the rest exclusive rights to middle east oil. There is so much money invested in this venture that they almost talked Bloomberg into running if the GOP made the mistake of nominating Huckabee.

And you have the nerve, the arrogance to call this a Democratic War.

If it were a Democratic War, they would not have had to steal the 2004 election in Ohio. They could have counted upon John Kerry to continue it for them, good soldier that he is. The corporate media would not have had to play What exit polls? revealing their own collusion.