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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Republicans Stupid" |
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04 Mar 2006 09:48:08 AM |
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Cindy Sheehan, Patriot |
Cindy Sheehan | Cegelis vs. The Machine
I am beginning to wonder what it is that such "Democrats" like Rahm Emanuel
(IL), Chuck Schumer (NY), and Nancy Pelosi (CA) are protecting in Iraq. What
is it that they have at stake in keeping the occupation of Iraq going? Their
constituents in every case are solidly anti-war and anti-Bush. They all come
from the bluest of states and/or districts. Yet when faced with the chance
to defend and promote antiwar candidates who agree with the majority of
Americans that it's time to get out of Iraq this year, they go into
overdrive to try to destroy their candidacies.
Take the case of Christine Cegelis. Cegelis opposed the war before it
started. She supports single-payer health care and a strong transition to
renewable energy.
She's pro-choice, and anti-CAFTA. And she has a strong grassroots following
in her district. In short, Christine Cegelis is exactly the kind of
candidate that the Democratic Party needs.
On top of that, in 2004 Christine took on the thankless task of running
against arch-conservative Henry Hyde (R-IL). You remember Henry Hyde-the man
whose name is on key right-to-life, the man who led the impeachment fight
against Bill Clinton, the man who now chairs the International Relations
Committee in the House and routinely buries antiwar Democrats' attempts to
investigate the lies that took us into the Iraq War that then took Casey.
Surprisingly, Christine racked up 44% against Hyde, despite being outspent
by 4-1. She immediately announced that she would run again, and faced with
her continuing strong grassroots opposition, Hyde decided to retire.
What was her reward for this service? Not an infusion of money to help her
win an open seat against a former Tom DeLay aide-No! Instead, DCCC head Rahm
Emanuel went out and found a candidate to run against her, a woman who did
not even live in the district. Then, led by Emanuel, almost all the
prominent Democrats in the country-John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barack
Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and many others-have weighed in on behalf of Cegelis'
opponent.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0303-20.htm
As Iraq descends into a civil war prepared and propagated by the neocons
with military bases and oil pipelines being constructed with very little
reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure, 82% of the Iraqi people want the
occupation to end and 49% think it's just fine to kill coalition troops to
do so.
Meanwhile, our own children and grandchildren will be paying for the
leadership vacuum created by both of our major political parties. Bushco has
put our country into deep and debilitating debt; they have made enemies for
generations by their policies of terror; and we have lost and had maimed so
much of our national human treasure. Bushco is spying on and imprisoning
Americans and other members of humanity without due process and selling our
security to the highest bidders.
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