I'm sick of Iraq
posted by Liberal Eagle at 11:29 AM
The Democrats' 100-hour agenda is on track; already they've passed a minimum wage increase, re-passed the stem cell research bill (though it's doomed to another veto, presumably), voted to implement the results of the 9/11 commission, and a bunch of other stuff.
I support pretty much all of it, but once again, it's not getting nearly as much attention as the ongoing Iraq mess. (No word quite captures the situation Bush and co. have wrought over there like Jon Stewart's "catastrofuck.")
And that's how it's been, for years now. Everything I believe in, sidelined. Because the thing about a great big ruinous misguided military misadventure is, it's kind of by definition the big story. So instead of participating in debate on policy issues that matter to me, I'm left being just another weary opponent of an ongoing disaster, waiting out the clock until we can stop being distracted by flag-draped coffins and honestly discuss health care, environmental protection and civil rights again.
It didn't have to be this way, you know. If the press had not almost universally decided Gore did not deserve the presidency, so let's give it to that nice Texas frat boy (what's the worst that could happen?), then decided he was Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln rolled into one and taken him at his word that we had no choice but to invade Iraq so Saddam didn't throw his aluminum tubes at us (I bet he can hurl them really hard!)...
If President Gore had come in, who knows what the major issue of the day would be? It would not be the bloody mess we're in now. We could be making progress. Now, it's all about slowing the bleeding. We'll ultimately have killed hundreds of thousands of people, spent over a trillion dollars, and made virtually no progress on important domestic concerns, all because David Broder decided Bush was the guy he'd rather have at his DC cocktail parties.
I'm just tired of it. And I wish things had been otherwise. That's all.
I support pretty much all of it, but once again, it's not getting nearly as much attention as the ongoing Iraq mess. (No word quite captures the situation Bush and co. have wrought over there like Jon Stewart's "catastrofuck.")
And that's how it's been, for years now. Everything I believe in, sidelined. Because the thing about a great big ruinous misguided military misadventure is, it's kind of by definition the big story. So instead of participating in debate on policy issues that matter to me, I'm left being just another weary opponent of an ongoing disaster, waiting out the clock until we can stop being distracted by flag-draped coffins and honestly discuss health care, environmental protection and civil rights again.
It didn't have to be this way, you know. If the press had not almost universally decided Gore did not deserve the presidency, so let's give it to that nice Texas frat boy (what's the worst that could happen?), then decided he was Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln rolled into one and taken him at his word that we had no choice but to invade Iraq so Saddam didn't throw his aluminum tubes at us (I bet he can hurl them really hard!)...
If President Gore had come in, who knows what the major issue of the day would be? It would not be the bloody mess we're in now. We could be making progress. Now, it's all about slowing the bleeding. We'll ultimately have killed hundreds of thousands of people, spent over a trillion dollars, and made virtually no progress on important domestic concerns, all because David Broder decided Bush was the guy he'd rather have at his DC cocktail parties.
I'm just tired of it. And I wish things had been otherwise. That's all.
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