Reply #33: Begging you pardon, but do you actually know me? [View All]

[MadHound]

I don't think so, so let me fill you in. I started protesting wars with Vietnam and I was nine years old. I protested the first Iraq war, and stood in solidarity with my Muslim brothers and sisters against the ongoing sanctions and bombings during the Clinton years. The US move in ratcheting up the Iraqi conflict into a "hot" war has led me into protesting it also. I find ANYBODY who was stupid, gullible, cowardly, or evil enough to vote for the IWR to be beneath notice, and I will not vote for them, no matter what. There is no excuse in existence to explain away rubberstamping a proposal to send thousands of innocents to death.

Therefore the three pro war Dems out there will not get my vote, either in the primaries or the general election. When both sides of the fence are advocating war, then a third way must be found. And yes, if a Dem does manage to get elected, they'd damn well be pulling the troops out of Iraq. Otherwise I and many people I know will be in their face for continuing this illegal and immoral war of empire. I am under no illusions that having a D behind one's name automatically makes you anti war. I remember LBJ and the Gulf of Tonkin all too well.