Tom Gilroy: How Pelosi Ended ‘The War With Iraq’

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/09/4418/

How Pelosi Ended ‘The War With Iraq’
by Tom Gilroy

Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but The War With Iraq is over.

Like everything with the Bush administration’s relationship to it’s gullible public, the point is never what they’re doing, but what they say they’re doing; it’s the words, not the deeds.

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What could’ve stopped it all, the great rebranding, the escalation, the extra deaths and crippling debt, not to mention yet another gutting of the power of the American voter? The impeachment process. This is of course the one thing Nancy Pelosi declared was ‘off the table’ before she’d done a single thing as Speaker.

Say it again, to yourself: ‘The one thing that truly could have derailed the longest war in US history, in the one moment where it was still possible, was declared ‘off the table’ by the leader of the opposition party, placed in power by a mandate from the people.’

The ‘Ending The War Phase’ is over and the ‘How Can We Sensibly Approach A Solution Phase?’ has begun. Feel any different?

It’s like Karl Rove is still writing the script. Maybe he is.

Our new Democratic president will tell us the ‘war is over’ and it will be as hollow as ‘mission accomplished’–especially to the Iraqis. But Americans will hear our ‘combat troops’ are coming home and sigh with relief as they nod with a feeling of democratic triumph at ‘the wave of change in Washington’—and go back to American Idol and Dancing With The Stars.

Maybe we should stop parsing the spin and arguing over which lie seems closer to the truth we want to believe.

Maybe we should forget about reality TV for a sec and start thinking about reality reality.

–Tom Gilroy

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1. THis is good..Rec'd~

Some of these Editorials are so pertinent I wish we could have them in GD where more people can see them and comment. :)

What was Nancy thinking when she took Impeachment Off The Table before she even got started?

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2. What is Nancy thinking on ANY given day?

Seriously, who still believes she's on our side?

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4. Nancy? In all her

self delusion?

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3. Shattered.

That is how I feel. I can not believe that Pelosi is that stupid to adopt this strategy. Thus, I can only conclude she doesn't want to end the war or defend the constitution. I feel like I'm in the scene from the movie Bravehart. We the democrats, are all massed on the field against King Edward, behind William Wallace, and then once the battle begins, Pelosi and our leaders, aka, the Bruce, simply ride away and betray us to the slaughter. She has her own agenda and she lies and cheats to maintain it. At the very least she is a coward, at the worst she is a traitor to the constitution.