Reply #55: Agree. Obama is our guy and we must do all possible to help him succeed. [View All]

And I will do all I can to help him succeed. The thing is -- as you perfectly pointed out in your essay, scarletwoman -- Obama is about the best we will be able to do.

The reality remains: There was no legitimate or legal reason at all to invade Iraq. And now wow we are to celebrate the exit of the last combat brigade? Gimme a break, world. The remaining "non-combat" troops are combat-ready. I won't say that anyone who doesn't see the problem with that is part of the problem because I believe all people don't see things the same way because each person sees things in their own way. That's being a Democrat.

Now I will say, because I am a Democrat, that should Congress and the Executive feel the need to look back in order to see who's gotten away with what, I ask them to read up on the Bush Family Evil Empire, a collection of people, associations and actions that should, at the very least, result in prosecutions under the RICO Act:

Goldmine Sacked or The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.

Bush has Killed a Million Innocent People for Their Oil.

Scions of the Military Industrial Complex

Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich

Olympic Games Show Who’s Best Friends Forever with Authoritarians and Dictators

Henry Paulson, Banker to the BFEE

In the old days, they'd burn blasphemers and heretics like me. Perhaps we should expand the practice to traitors and NAZIs.

I'd like to see this investigated. Until then, may the record show my petition of grievances with the shadow government. And count me, along with everybody in Grant Park and watching on the tee vee, as one with tears in his eyes, but standing and knowing. And we are people of action, we Democrats, We the People.