And The War Goes On

This afternoon Senate Democrats sold out the American service men and women who are being maimed and killed every day. Today the Senate Democrats sold out the American people who gave them their mandate to End This War Now last November.

Russ Feingold of Wisconsin said it best on the Senate Floor today:

"Instead of forcing the President to safely redeploy our troops, instead of coming up with a strategy providing assistance to a post-redeployment Iraq, and instead of a renewed focus on the global fight against al-Qaeda, we are faced with a spending bill that kicks the can down the road and buys the Administration time."

Watch him here.

And the Senators are not alone. Nancy Pelosi, my own congressional representative I'm sad to say , and a whole slew of purported Congressional progressives were too afraid to seriously confront the administration and call a halt to this wrongheaded war Now by simply refusing to fund it. They have patched together legislation that gives Bush all the money he needs to continue the killing for the rest of his term,

Then Pelosi has the nerve to say "I will vote against this bill". Oh thank you Nancy! It is morally repugnant for you to have personally put together is phony bill and marshalled its support while allowing those of your two faced colleagues who have to confront anti-war voters at home to claim they voted against their own measure.

The Iraq War is now a Democratic War.