Hallelujah! The People Have Spoken. George "Stay the Course" Bush and his trusty side kick Dick "The Insurgents are in Their Last Throes" Cheny and the beleagured Republican bobble heads under their command, have been dealt their most crushing political defeat in over twelve years. The American people, who have tired of the three year carnage, the newpaper obituaries of our fighting men and women; our nation fighting a war on the other side of the world, with no clear-cut direction, no exit strategy, and which has been muddled in controversy, finally reached their limit. They voiced their displeasure with their votes and sent the Republicans packing. The entire Congress is now under Democratic control.
The Democrats who have been victims of themselves, and have spent the last 12 years wandering around, like a blind man looking for the corner of a round room, now have the opportunity to show the nation what they are capable of accomplishing. That they are capable of leading this country in a direction away from the Facist dictatorship we have been slowly moving towards and re-establish the U.S. as a progressive nation that cares about all it's citizens and prides itself on developing harmonious relationships with other nations for the betterment of the planet. The time to act is now.
The U.S. needs to make some quick moves in Iraq. Although nobody wants to admit it, Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. Sectarian violence is claiming hundreds of victims daily. A day doesn't go by when we hear about another group of Shiites or Sunnies found bound, gagged, tortured and shot, or the wailing of an Iraqi mother whose family was wiped out by a misguided missle or maurading death squad. The U.S. needs to take a defensive posture, rather than the offensive posture that has alienated all sides of the conflict. We cannot control what is happening over there in Iraq. The secretarian violence has created a life of it's own perpetuated by centuries of tension and conflict between the major Muslim groups. We've become a third wheel in Iraq, the jilted lover in a bloody triangle that's despised by everyone. Our presence in Iraq has inflamed passions around the middle east and the U.S. is vilified around the world. Staying in Iraq serves no purpose. Attempting to institude a democracy in Iraq is like planting an acorn seed and trying to grow an avocado tree. The political climate makes this fantasy absolutely improbable. We are no closer to winning the war on terror then we were when we invaded Iraq three years ago. It has been a colossal waste of money and manpower.
We need to stop the body count. We need to get out of Iraq and concentrate on our own internal problems and getting our country in order and back on track.
The time to act is now. The people have spoken.
