AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/23/05

We are on a course set for Empire, and there's mutiny in the air. Biden, Clinton, and the entire Democratic Party establishment, as well as the GOP, are frantically trying to quell it. After Rep. Murtha announced his support for a plan that would have us out of Iraq in six months, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi demurred when asked if she endorsed it. Naturally, Biden, too, shied away from Murtha, while praising the old Marine's courage -- and demonstrating his own lack of it. The Democratic Party is worse than useless in the struggle to extract us from the Iraqi quagmire: it is an obstacle, not the lever that will get us out. Combined with their hopelessly statist domestic policies -- which cry out for a wartime atmosphere of permanent emergency, all the better to increase the size and power of government -- the Democrats' stance is indistinguishable from the Cheneyites in everything but tone...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp