Kicking open the gates of Hell

By Mike Whitney
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_931.shtml

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Representative John Murtha keeps harping away at this one point, but no one in the Congress seems to grasp what he’s talking about. They look at him like a madman while they continue to dawdle on meaningless resolutions that merely extend the war into perpetuity.

“There's no plan!” Murtha said on Meet the Press. “You open up this plan for victory. There's no plan there. It's just, ‘Stay the course.’ That doesn't solve the problem. It's worse today than it was six months ago when I spoke out initially. When I spoke out, the garbage wasn't being collected, oil production below pre-War level -- all those things indicated to me we weren't winning this, and it's the same today, if not worse.”

Murtha’s frustration is palpable. He’s the only man in Congress who seems to have a grip on the calamity that looms ahead. The rest don’t understand that the United States is losing this war and that a defeat in Iraq will precipitate a seismic shift in the lives of every American.

“The war in Iraq is not going as advertised” Murtha said. “It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. . . . It is time for a change in direction. . . . Our military has done its duty. They’ve been fighting a war in Iraq for over two and a half years and now the administration agrees, Iraq cannot be won ‘militarily.’ . . . We cannot continue on the present course. The future of our country is at risk."...

That's not a plan, it is simply an insubstantial slogan.

Their dickless "no plan" approach is not convincing.

They need to put out another narrative for the war--the one that happens to be true--about the neocon drive to control the world's oil and Bush's specific goal of keeping Saddam from pumping too much oil and driving down the price of oil.

How many people would support the war if they knew our soldiers were dying so they could pay MORE at the pump?

...Chimpy's State of the Union address. That was the perfect opportunity to deliver some very hard hitting truths about the Neocon agenda and the immense damage they've done our country under BushCo. Much should have been said about the deceptions that lead up to the Iraq invasion and I think Feingold should have been the one to speak for Dems that night. Why didn't they send in a heavy hitter, rather than someone most people don't even know? That whole night almost seemed scripted by the GOP to me.

Old news, I know, it still pisses me off though.

begged to no avail for a retreat from Russia. Is it 7 or 8 generals who have resigned over shrub's parallel intransigence? How much more havoc will this corrupt regime wreak before they are relegated to the " dustbin of history"?

Russia and China behaving more sanely than our own government.