Since you’re unlikely to run across it on the network news, let me point you to this speech delivered in Iowa Wednesday by the anti-Lieberman, Connecticut’s Chris Dodd.
Read it all, not just these excerpts. Now see if you share Senator Dodd’s feelings about the mess we’ve been plunged into by Bush and the gang of Reagan retreads he returned to positions of power.
And now, since polls show conclusively that your positions and Senator Dodd’s are shared by a clear and sometimes overwhelming majority of Democratic voters (and even by a growing minority of Republican ones), you may well ask yourself—
Why the hell is this guy being written off as a second-tier candidate by the self-appointed gatekeepers of the MSM when the race has barely gotten under way?
We don’t need a surge of troops in Iraq — we need a surge of diplomacy … That is why, tonight, I am calling on all the candidates in this race to join me in clearly standing up to the President once and for all by stating their support for the Feingold-Reid legislation that sets a firm timetable to end this war by March 31st, 2008 …
Instead of uniting the world against global terrorism, the Bush Administration divided our allies, preemptively taking America to war with Iraq …
From the UN and NATO to the Geneva Conventions and the Kyoto Protocol, no agreement, no framework was too significant to belittle, to weaken, to discredit — regardless of how important they were to America’s security …
Where a generation ago, you could enter almost any home from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego and see a picture of John F. Kennedy, today, our president can barely be seen in public there.
It is stunning and illustrative of how much has been lost in less than six years that we are losing a public relations battle to Hugo Chávez.
In so many ways, this picture — of an isolated America, of emerging rogue states, and weakened international alliances to contain them — bears an unsettling resemblance to the world in the years leading up to World War Two …
What America needs is a President who will insist the House of Saud stop sending money to terrorists to take up residence elsewhere and start using their resources and efforts to bring stability and peace to the Middle East.
What America needs is a President who will look into Vladimir Putin’s eyes not to get a sense of his soul — but to tell him America wants to work together with Russia, not against her, but cannot in the face of his blatant disregard for a free press and suppression of political dissent.
What America needs is a President who understands that the choice between coddling tyrannical leaders or going to war with them is a false choice when America is no longer acting alone …
Why? For the same reason that they're running stories that are created to boost ratings but don't amount to a hill of beans. They like "controversial" candidates that one group another can hate. It guarantees them an audience, which guarantees them a larger slice of American Pie.
They pander to the the vilest instincts of the human soul. In the process, they are destroying what could be, or might become, if they could change their ways, a great nation.
What else should we expect from them, though? They're all connected with the military industrial complex in some way or another. The national interest is being marketed for next quarters earnings, all in the name of short term profits.
Posted by: Buck on April 13, 2007 6:31 PM...and/or connected with the religion military complex.
Posted by: Hoffmann on April 13, 2007 7:02 PMOur very own Lone Ranger has never "acted alone." Just as the fictional Lone Ranger had his faithful sidekick, Tonto (the word means "stupid" in Spanish), our real-life Dick Cheney has his Dubya.
Posted by: Aitch Jay on April 14, 2007 2:37 PMDodd is on my short list, along with Obama.
I do think that, if we're going to train Iraqi soldiers, doing so would be easier, cheaper, safer, etc., here in the States.
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on April 16, 2007 8:00 AM