Robert Parry: Democrats, the Truth Matters!

Robert Parry has a warning for Democrats, over at the Consortium News website. It's all about how Clinton's (and the Democratic party's) failure to prosecute the misdeeds of the Bush Family led to our president predicament.

Hey, Democrats, the Truth Matters!



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Democrats played by Marquis of Queensberry rules, as usual; the Repubs played by the Marquis de Sade's rules, also as usual. So what were the results of Mr. Clinton's attempts at bipartisanship?



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In other words, by not going after the BFEE for Iran-Contra, the BCCI debacle, the School of the Americas, and so many other high crimes and misdemeanors, Clinton and the centrist Democratic leadership became enablers, and even accessories after the fact, to the Bush family's crimes.

Folks, if we have any chance to gain power in 2006 & 2008, and we want to retain it, we are going to have to go after the Reagan-Bush axis. Prosecute them, with an emphasis on the money trails. Make their crimes public.

And be prepared to get down and dirty! These people are fighting like they're in a bar fight, not a civilized, Democratic election process. The Rethugs remind me of stories a college friend of mine used to tell about his days as an aide in an emergency room in a hospital near Tinker AFB in Oklahoma. He had to patch up a lot of injuries resulting from bar fights - especially after payday. He always said the worst injuries were from fights where there was 1 knife between two combatants. It seems, in that situation, each participant felt obliged to get in as many cuts as he or she could while he or she had possession of the knife.

See the parallel, and the lesson? Ready to get in as many cuts as we can, if and when we get possession of the knife?

Democrats played by Marquis of Queensberry rules, as usual; the Repubs played by the Marquis de Sade's rules

...that explains this apparent disinterest in the truth is that the people behind all of these "leaders" don't want it revealed. It remeinds me of the Kerry investigation into BCCI. He was allowed to go only so far because to truly reveal what was going on would lay bare the dirty little secrets of the US Perma War State - that at very high levels there exists massive drug smuggling, money laundring, and illegal arms traffic. Follow the money. Sibel Edmunds was trying to state as much when she was silenced by the courts for "National Security" reasons.

There is only one party in control, the money party.

There is a reason why so many of our leaders come from so small a "gene pool." They have implicitly agreed that "the truth" is too hot to handle for the highly deluded apathetic US citizen. As long as the cheap money and benefits of empire continue to flow to Mr. and Mrs. John Q its "don't ask, don't tell."

I salute Bob and other real journalists for at least attempting to follow the trail of lies and corruption. If the average citizen cared 1/2 as much, the US society would transform itself semmingly overnight.