Don't Fall Out Over Iraq
Jun 18, 2007 at 12:41 PM by Isaiah PooleFreshman congressman Keith Ellison took on one of the movement’s most serious problems when he told progressives not to allow their frustrations with Congress’ inability to stop the war in Iraq to divide them.
“You might be mad at the Congress because they didn’t and the war in six months but I’m here to ask you for us to not fall out over tactics and strategies,” Ellison, D-Minn., the state’s first African-American congressman and the nation’s first Muslim congressman.
Ellison said that it is right that we should be impatient with the pace of change, particularly when it comes to Iraq, “but don’t turn your dissatisfaction into a cannibalistic enterprise.”
We have not been in charge for very long and we are anxious for real change, and sometimes when you’re in that frame of mind you turn on the people who you think did not deliver for you fast enough. This is not the time to do that. This is the time for us to stick together and build into our movement a way to resolve conflict.”
Consider how progressives built their political infrastructure from the low point that they hit after the 1964 election, when Barry Goldwater lost in a landslide election. Even though they were dispirited, “they organized. They were patient. They understood that to project a vision that would only benefit about 1 percent of the people but to get half of the people in the country to vote for it would take a lot of work.”
Ellison got some nodded heads when he said that a powerful independent movement is necessary to keep the pressure on Congress to end the war in Iraq and pursue other progressive policies. Important social movements, he added, don’t start with politicians in Washington. “Don’t look for Congress for inspiration,” he said. “Politicians see the light when they feel the heat.”
I am tired of playing nice and the non-level playing field we have been forced to play on to date.
I say F you! you mother F ers if you still call yourself a repuglican at this point in time you are part of the problem and we will find a solution for the likes of you.
The media have been picking apart so-called liberals since the early ninties and have a double standard they apply to liberals and democrats. The same behaviour that causes the jackels (er, the media) to descend upon a democrat, a repuglican can get away with and no comment is made. There is no liberal media that is a lie the media put forth to try and hide their true intent to be an active member in the dismantling of the American style of democratic rule.
Libby lied and people almost surely died. Just like Bush he lied and people died. Clinton's lie caused no death and wasn't done to protect treasonous actions. Libby lied to protect treasonous actions by rethuglicans. And he was convicted of multiple counts of lying to a grand jury under oath about the outing of a covert CIA agent during a time of war that their side started by attacking Iraq, an illegal and immoral war. The CIA agent his side outed during a time of war was married to a man who was outing their lies about the threat of Iraq trying to acquire a nuclear weapon to attack the USA. The unwarranted outing of a covert CIA agent identity during a time of war is treasonouse action. And to top it off the CIA agent they outed was working on Iranian weapons of mass destruction at a time we were rattling sabers to fight the Iranians. And to drop to an even lower level of scum the rethuglican base now starts a letter writing campaign to come to the defense of the said convicted felon (treasonous) Libby who will most surely be pardoned by Bush (immoral) anyway. And all of this after all through the ninties the entire nation watched those same repuglicans go on an early war path to impeach President Bill Clinton while he was in office for lying about whether he had sex with a whore who masceraded as an aide while the government was shut down by a repuglican orchestrated budget crisis.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I refuse to take it any more.
I call all the the filthy so-called republicans out.
Better come prepared cause I been waitin 7 years for this fight...
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