Jefferson Corner: America's Speaker Corner

01 March 2007

Congress, Democrats before Republicans should apologize to the nation

Many discussions are going in the halls of Congress over the War on Iraq, and most of the talk will not go anywhere, leaving the situation created by the Chaney-Bush administration where it is for the last 5 years.
No one in the US Senate and US House of Representative so far take full responsibility for being duped, and for voting to go to war, based on lies and fraudulent evidence that a secondary school kid could see.
Of course Republicans are daring and blackmailing the Democrats to vote against the war and will claim that the vote will putour troops in harm way by cutting off the funding. Supporting the troops is one thing, supporting the war is another thing, and Democrats should know that simple point.
So many US senators who now speak out against the war, have voted for it, and when they voted for it, did not bother to ask the right questions and raise doubts on the credibility of the evidence given the fact that the Chaney-Bush administration is prone to lies and have a propensity to never tell the truth. These senators did not have the courage to stand up for America and have failed us and failed our troops at all levels, and dare not to stand up for what is and what was right. They voted for the stupid, useless war, because they did not have the courage to face the voters and tell them the truth that Dick Chaney and George Bush were liars.
So far, over 3000 of our finest troops are dead, over 30,000 are in run down hospitals( while defense contractors are making billions), without proper care with varying degrees of permanent injuries, and of course with over 65,000 dead Iraqis, with the country facing a vicious civil war. Of course while the war in Iraq, originally billed as against Saddam and his Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), the war, failing at all front, was re-billed by the spin masters at the White House as the part of the global war on terror. Every one, except the smart and semi-intelligent people at the White House and the major conservative think tank, tell us we are winning the war on terror. With over a 1000 x ($1000,000,000), and 5 years with some 300,000 of our finest troops in the battle field, and of course with the most powerful missiles, airplanes, smart bombs, aircraft carries, any nation could muster, we could not so far put an end to these criminal Talibans, who destroyed their country and are trying to destroy ours. No one can convince me, with all of the firepower and, the best-equipped army in the world we are unable to defeat the Talibans that raged tag army. Now we are even told to expect more poweful attacks by the Talibans.
Nothing short of a formal public apology from the US Senate and the House of Representative will do. Democrats before Republican should apologies to the nation, the families of all those who died fighting a war based on lies, and apology to all the tax payers who saw their hard earned money going to thieves and robbers pretending to be defense contractors. An apology should go the people of Iraq for failing them, in their quest for freedom from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. The only good thing that came out of this stupid war was the hanging of Saddam and the possible hanging of members of his revolutionary cabinet. Too bad the Iraqis proved they are unfit for democracy and freedom.
While not a military expert, though I did serve in the US Army, I never understood how can commanders, graduates from military academies could think that by destroying few tanks they could defeat an army? I could never understand how these commanders in the Pentagon and in the field did not think of the millions of small arms weapons, of rocket launchers, of land mines that the 400,000 strong Iraqi army took home with them when the army simply disappeared and George Bush declared victory from the deck of the aircraft carriers. Didn’t Donald Rumsfeld, the cocky former defense secretary asks what about all those weapons and what potential danger do they pose to our troops?
Not only there was a total failure on the military front, there was an absolute disaster on the civilian side as well. With Paul Bremer awarded the highest civilian medal, one has to wonder where did the billions of dollars disappeared under his watch? And why so many defense contractors made a killing and were allowed to rob and fleece the country.
Yes, Harry Reid, Hilary Clinton, Barak Obama, Carl Levin, John Kerry Nancy Pelosi all should take the lead and gather the rest of members of congress and should without delay apologies to the nation for failing to their job of representing our best interest as people and as nation.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home