New Toon: The Addict & the Enabler
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Mikhaela Reid
I have nothing against Nancy Pelosi, but I totally disagree with her decision to push through that “anti-war” war funding bill. Congress has the power to stop this war right now if it wants to by refusing to fund it. It’s nice that the spending bill includes a pullout date, but the pullout date is in September 2008, more than a year away. How many more Americans and Iraqis will be dead by then? How many more billions will we have spent on an unjust and evil war–billions that could have gone to education, health care, social services, fighting poverty, battling AIDS, you name it… ? Why are the supposedly anti-war Democrats giving Bush even that much more time to mess up Iraq, now that they finally admit how wrong this whole mess has been?All of this seems to be wrapped up in the idea that sending more troops to die is the best way to support the troops. If you believe the war is wrong, that makes no sense. Refusing to fund the war isn’t refusing to support the troops–a bill could be written that would fund only a pullout, no?
P.S. I know, I know. I realize I’m just angry and griping and idealistic, and Pelosi is just doing what she has to do, and they’re aren’t enough votes for an earlier pullout and Bush is most likely going to veto this thing anyway. But I’m still frustrated with the entire Congress–the vast majority of Americans have been against the war for some time now, but instead of a pullout all we’ve gotten is a surge.
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