Source: LewRockwell.Com
Author: Stan Goff

08/25/05

The Democrats are already grooming a few 2008 candidates, including the execrable Hillary Rodham Clinton who has stated her desire to beef up the war against Southwest Asia. Let’s not forget that her husband presided over an Iraqi holocaust that George W. Bush is still trying to match. The Republicans are secure for now with their white nationalist popular base. An active and increasingly militant left is a more immediate threat to the Democrats ­ who have prospered from Republican reaction for decades now by capturing social bases that feel they have nowhere else to go. That dilemma is real, but it is also predicated on the notion that to ‘go there’ we need to contain ourselves in electoralism and pluralist policy fights that are engineered by corporations and NGOs. That’s why Sheehan and others who propose the radical option of simply leaving Iraq are now being surrounded by the friendly faces of ‘progressives’ who will try and redirect this newfound mobilization along the acceptable policy-debate paths...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp