Americans Finally Learn To Cooperate On A National Suicide Project

[Tom Joad]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/20...tional-suicide

This is an awesome article!

The author gives just about everyone a well deserved ration of shit for the sorry state of affairs this country finds itself in. It's a long article, but well worth reading because he nails it on just about every point.

Here is an excerpt on Hillary Clinton's Iraq War vote that I particularly like.

Clinton also lost a lot of progressive supporters by voting for George W. Bush’s Iraq war resolution, as well she should have. In fact, she should count yourself lucky that she’s not sitting in some civil or criminal court, or both, to answer for that crime. The lie that she’s offered in the form of some jive apology only compounds the sin of the original lie. Iraq, which had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, was no threat to America in 2003, and in fact wasn’t even making threatening noises in our direction. Weapons inspectors were on the ground, finding nothing, and begging for a few more weeks to finish their job. Moreover, plenty of countries in the world had weapons of mass destruction at that time, and nobody talked about launching an invasion against China or Russia or even North Korea. And yet Clinton, who never even bothered to read the intelligence dossier presented to Congress, voted for the war resolution. Why? Everybody knows the answer to that. She desperately wanted to be president and feared—perhaps especially as a female candidate—that a no vote would make her look weak on national security. So, now, somewhere between 100,000 and one million Iraqis, Americans and others are dead, all lives sacrificed on the altar of the personal careers of American politicians like Bush, Kerry and Clinton. Again, please forgive my naïveté, but I just don’t know how somebody like that sleeps at night. To be honest, it seems to me that only a full-blown sociopath could live with themselves, having traded so much human misery for their own pathetic career ambitions.

Jimmy Dore interviewed the guy on his show.

Here's the link to it on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jl-...&feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jl-...&feature=share