Message from Ralph
Have the Democrats learned anything from 2004?
Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, now wishes President Bush “success” for his war in Iraq.
“Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out,” Dean told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center on April 20, 2005. “The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before,” Dean said. “But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he’s there.”
Two months earlier, Bush’s CIA Director, Porter J. Goss, told the Senate that the U.S. occupation has become a potent recruitment tool for more terrorists from Iraq and other countries.
The military/industrialist Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for her party’s 2008 Presidential nomination, continues to support the war in Iraq.
And now she is supporting International Paper’s plan to test burn used automobile tires at its Ticonderoga, New York facility – making the Republican Governor of Vermont – across the waters of Lake Champlain – look like an environmentalist for opposing the burn.
The test burn is the company’s first step in a plan to burn 72 tons of tires a day at the facility.
Vermont PIRG points out that the company’s boiler is not properly equipped to catch the highly toxic pollutants that are coming out of the plant right now, yet alone the witches brew of heavy metals and cancer causing chemicals released from burning tires.
Two years ago this week, President Bush, standing under a “Mission Accomplished” banner aboard the USS Lincoln, proclaimed the end of major combat operations in Iraq.
Since then, more than 1,400 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq.
And the Democrats can’t muster a single member of Congress to formally call for the impeachment of Bush for his ongoing illegal war.
I like Ralph, I do. But reality is that a huge number of Americans think even Hillary is too far to the left.
Baby steps to making our country a better place. Baby steps to the White House.
And we needneedneed a woman President. AND if we pull out of Iraq right now, there will be mass slaughter. We need to get international help and get out quickly, but we absolutely cannot leave Iraqis in the lurch. Again.
(At the bottom of all your posts is something terrible ungrammatical, BTW. “There is no responses” should read either “There is no repsonse” or “There are no responses.”)
Thanks for pointing the grammatical error out. That was a hold out from the original default template I twisted and poked to design what we see now.
I realize there are a huge amount of Americans that think Hillary is too liberal. I also realize that a huge amount of Americans voted for George W. Bush two times…
I don’t agree with the assumption you make about needing a woman president. What we need is a good president (hell, how about good representation all around). A woman can do just as much damage to our enviroment, rights, and safety as Dubya. Do you really think Condoleeza Rice, Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, or Dianne Thompson would make a good president?
Nader’s thoughts on getting out of Iraq are not as simple as “pulling out” sounds. He’s written numerous papers on the subject outlining a withdrawal plan. For the most part the plan consists of a rapid replacement of American civilian and military units with UN peacekeepers. His main objective is to stop the corporate advantage that is currently being taken.