I will say it...

I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...I told you so...

Did I mention that I told you so?

Dems abandon war authority provision

Here's the reaction at Crooks & Liars. What gets me is the incredulation. Uh...duuuuhhhh.

Unrelated note:
This is pretty cool.

Labels: democrats, iran, wussies

OK, stay with me on this.

There's starting to be a big tizzy about the condition of Walter Reed Hospital - where veterans go, particularly ones who have just been injured in war. It sucks there and it started to suck a couple of years ago when The War Criminal started privitzing everything. You can see a brief CNN report here.

Democrats in Congress have set up an investigation (with Subpenas) so fast that I think I have whiplash. They're also doling out subpenas to lawyers in the Justice Department who were fired by The War Criminal. THAT'S been there first use of the subpena power that had been getting so many nipples erect.

Now...here's the thing you MUST read. It's Seymour Hersh's article on how we're already into Iran. What people don't know much about it is that Iran is WAAAAAAAY more powerful than Iraq; they have bought hundreds of Russian planes that were specially developed to fuck up US aircraft carriers. They've also been signing treaties with Russia, China, N. Korea and others. If Iran gums up the Strait of Hormuz, it's going to mess up the economies of a lot of countries who are going to be (more) pissed at us. We're talking about a world war...and The War Criminal and his minions as well as the two presidential flavors of the month, Clintonbagger and Obama (I gotta get a nickname for him) continue to use the expression that no option is "off the table" (unlike impeachment). That's code for nuclear weapons.

Folks. This is nearer than you think. And the Democrats are saying that impeachment is off the table and they can't make up their fucking minds on Iraq...and meanwhile World War III is around the corner. Swell.

Call your representatives NOW...tell them to stop funding for troops in Iraq - which will slow down this train to hell. Again...here are the links to contact them:

Your Senator
Your Congressperson

It's a freakin phone call...It's not like anyone's asking you to march in a protest.

On a semi-related note...today's Democracy Now featured and hour-long reach around with Wesley Clark...who's probably running for the Democratic nomination again. It's an interesting thing to check out because once he declares, you won't see another interview like this again. He says a lot of good things, but there's something there that doesn't sit right with me. Well, check out the interview for yourself. When you get down to it, he'll still kill with the rest of them. He'd probably be good as Secretary of State or something like that...but not president.

Labels: iran, Seymour Hersh, Walter Reed, Wesley Clark

I had other things, non-political things, that I was going to talk about...this ridiculous Miss USA stupidity, mysuck...I mean, myspace and get in my annual rant about f-ing Heatmiser, but I stumbled upon something tonight that made me put all that aside and go back to my old faithful - politics...and actually, it's not really politics, it's more of a current events thing, but it definitely has it's base in the political realm. Anyway...

I don't consider myself to be the smartest person around. I'd like to think I have a healthy share of common sense, but that's about it. And when I "spout off" here, I know I sound like some dork who has no real social skills (which is true in some ways, untrue in others). But on occassion, someone says something that says what I've been trying to say only more clearly and rationally than I ever could. So here is something Scott Ritter said:

Again, I mean to correct the American public here. 65% of the American public aren’t antiwar. They’re just anti-losing. You see, if we were winning the war in Iraq, they’d all be for it. If we had brought democracy, they’d be cheering the President. It wouldn’t matter that we violated international law. It wouldn’t even matter that we lied about weapons of mass destruction. We’d be winning. God bless America. Ain’t we good? USA, USA! But we’re losing, so they’re against Iraq. -Democracy Now

I've taken shit from people since 9/11, but my stance on war has been the same...no war unless we are specifically attacked by a specific country. Pre-emptive war is illegal and immoral and our "representatives" are war criminals. And this crap about not going after impeachment because of (insert the last lame-ass excuse you've heard, here), is just as immoral.

So, whatcha gonna do about it? Eh?

Well, here we go...time for another war protest. I'm going to do everything in my power to get there and you should too. It's time - even if you've never been in one, you need to send a message to people in Washington, in the press and to people around the world that these corporate-owned war criminals do not speak for us. Bring your kids, get them involved, push 'em in a stroller, get them used to being involved in their democracy- even if you're not.

"On Saturday, Jan. 27th, people from every corner of the country will march on Washington, DC. Our message will be clear, our voice will be strong: End the war in Iraq, Bring all the troops home now! We urge you to join us!" Go to http://www.unitedforpeace.org

Labels: iran, iraq, january_27th_protest, scott_ritter