President Queeg and his Senate poodles

From The Hill’s Pundits Blog:

George Bush’s Iraq Obsession: America Held Hostage

Brent Budowsky

As you read these words George W. Bush is poised to humiliate Senate Republicans yet again — and Senate Republicans, with only a few exceptions, are poised to accept this new humiliation and say, yet again: Yes, boss.

From the minute George Bush planned to let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora by diverting our military to his obsessive hunger for the Iraq war, the conduct of Republicans in the Senate has been one of the most morally shameful abdications of conscience and duty in the history of the American Congress.

On Iraq, George Bush is trapped in his own private Guantanamo, a detainee of his personal and uncontrollable obsession about this war, no matter what the truth, no matter what the cost, no matter what the consequences.

At every single step of the way towards this catastrophe, the Senate Republicans marched in lockstep, at first blinded by their power in controlling the Senate, and then blinded by their fear of standing up to the man most of them know is deadly wrong, about this deadly war…

War was treated by George W. Bush not as a mean to unite the nation, to win the war, but as a means to divide the nation, to win his quest for unlimited power…

The great sin of the Senate Republicans, the legacy of carnage and national division that they bear primary responsibility for, is that they enabled and empowered this reckless abuse of power and this fanatical and obsessive hunger for unwise war…

They went to the White House and offered their wise counsel, only to be met with smirks and derision from a president who treated even senior Republicans as his private poodles.

They left the White House meetings with their tails between their legs, and went to the floor of the Senate and said things publicly they did not privately believe, and voted for escalations they deeply believed were wrong, and joined the president at their fundraisers and partisan meetings to speak words they knew were false, to support policies they knew were deadly…

The blood is flowing, the world is watching, and history will judge. But make no mistake: The House Democrats are ready to end this tragedy. The House as an institution is ready. The Senate Democrats are ready. The free world is ready. The American people are ready.

If the Senate Republicans submit yet again to what they know is deadly wrong, they will be standing alone, with George W. Bush, against the entire free world, against their own private conscience, and they will suffer an epic landslide defeat in 2008 and will be convicted forever in the high court of history.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and to Bill Alexander, then-chief deputy whip of the House. He is a contributing editor to Fighting Dems News Service. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

The excerpt above is posted with the full knowledge and permission, even encouragement, of the author, who wants his essays to be read by as many people as possible.

A righteous indictment against the Republics, the question is...will there be any price paid?!!! :eyes: :kick: