No More Mr. Nice Guy!

None dare call it Vietnam

...At least, none of the cowardly, craven, supinely subservient Dems in Congress. Although the Iraq-Vietnam parallels are stacking up higher every day, it takes a Republican Senator (one of the very few who have the faintest clue what it is to serve in the military) to state the obvious and utter the dreaded V-word.

You know, the Dems have an incredible genius for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Look at their total lack of response to the Pat Robertson fiasco. This was an amazing gift for them, an infinitely bigger deal that the "Dean Scream" or pictures of Kerry windsurfing. A religious leader with unprecedented access to the White House, a man Junior has been pandering to for his entire presidency, calls for the murder of a popularly elected foreign leader, and what to the Dems do? Sweet Fanny Adams! And when the extreme right comes out swinging against science and medicine, you can't see the Dems for dust as they frantically scurry away from the debate, or else rush to hold the Repugs' coats.

But it's on the Iraq issue that the Dems most clearly show their abject, quivering spinelessness. Having allowed themselves to be bush-boozled and stampeded into a quagmire war against the wrong country, they cannot bring themselves to admit their appalling mistake and naivete for fear of being labelled flip-floppers. Oh come on! There is no shame in admitting that you gave Junior the benefit of the doubt, because that's what you're supposed to do for the President of the United States, and he lied to you and abused your trust.

But in any case, it's too late for the Lieberman-Biden quisling faction of the Dems, with their street-junkie dependence on corporate contributions, and their naive, babes-in-the-wood demeanor in Congress which leads them to take Nerf sticks to fights in which the Rethugs use machine guns.

If we are to have any chance of taking back our country, we must first of all take back our party. People are tired of panty-waist Dem candidates who stand for nothing and cheerfully sacrifice every Democratic principle just to be in on the action in Washington. They respond fantastically well to people like Howard Dean and Paul Hackett, men with backbones who speak their minds. We need thousands more like them. But where are these thousands going to come from?

Answer: be the change you want to see! Don't let the Dem milquetoasts drop the ball and let Johnny-come-latelys in the Repug party pick it up, and claim credit for bringing the troops home (if it ever happens). Stand up and be counted - let everyone know you condemn Junior's illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq.

Make no mistake, Iraq is this generation's Vietnam - on crack cocaine. It was the elephant in the living room in last November's election, with Kerry milking his service in Vietnam, and Rove unleashing his Swift Boat Liars to counteract the damage this was doing to his AWOL boss. Now let's bring it all out in the open - the lies, the corruption, the arrogance and incompetence of the Junior misadministration. Stop worrying about the political consequences of being an inch to the left of the Neonazi-cons. Let's face it, we have nothing to lose. The only way is up!