Reply #24: HUGE K&R! [View All]

[Tatiana]

Awesome job of showing how once an American President chooses to take this country to war, Congress has traditionally been unable to stop it. Simply repealing the IWR wouldn't have removed troops from Iraq. It's clear to me that we will not begin to have a prayer of getting our troops out of the region until Bush and Cheney are removed from office.

The apathy of the American public is very disappointing. Most Americans don't have any idea how our nation's leaders have engaged in imperialistic, illegal, and immoral interventions in other countries. This middle-eastern invasion is only the most recent example of America trying to impose its will on people who wish we would just leave them alone.

Short of making international history a compulsory course in high school, the only thing that will really get the public off their behinds and realize how wrong our foreign policy has been (and continues to be) is a draft.