Let me finish tonight with this.
Mitt Romney is running for president using the words and speeches of the same people who got us into the hell of Iraq: the neocons.
You can hear them in Romney's speech today, all this talk of "not apologizing for America's power." They've got a thing about that phrase: we should never apologize for our power.
Well, of course, it's all a straw man. No one apologizes for America's power. Yes, we rethink some of our actions — like not getting into World War II sooner, like escalating the American war in Vietnam, like the deceit and cunning and propaganda that took us into Iraq nine years ago. Yes, we dare to rethink and learn from our experiences. Yes, we wonder if the military solution was the right one. We, many of us, believe that mistakes were made, that leaders told us untruths, that we were sold a reality that was not a reality.
Yes, all this is true. In the world outside of stupid politics, it's called "growing up."
I don't know how someone like Mitt Romney, who didn't serve in Vietnam, doesn't feel in his conscience the need to revisit that war, to figure out what he thinks was done right, what was done wrong. That's not "apologizing" for America's power; it's understanding when and where and how to use it.
Here's what I think: I think that the horror of war is so vital to realize, to take to our own minds and hearts, that we don't send men and women into battle until the leaders fully and fairly decide that is the only solution. I trust President Obama to make that kind of decision. Today's words by Mitt Romney do not give me that confidence. The fact that they were so transparently written by the same neocons who sold us the war in Iraq makes me all the less certain of him.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Any American who bought the lies and corrupt thinking that took us into Iraq must hear in Romney's words today the worst memories of Iraq and "WMD" and "aluminum tubes" and "Niger yellowcake" and Scooter Libby and all the rest of this terrible, dishonest history.
If anyone should apologize to America, it's the neocons who wrote Romney's speech.
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Of course Mittens is running on the same Bush policies. The rich love paying zero or near zero in taxes while also taking huge sums in tax benefits and subsidies themselves for businesses. They also love having near total exemption from all laws. That is the definition of deregulation. But it goes beyond that. The rich don't get prosecuted. What do you think would happen to a normal working class American that got caught with a bag of 10,000+ Vicaden pills without a prescription like Rush Limbaugh did? You'd be in prison until you died. That's how the law works for the rest of us. But because these guys are board members of corporations they all get EXTRA RIGHTS. How is that American?
Vote all Republicans out. The don't believe in our democratic America. They believe in a corporate America where they're the new aristocracy who live off our taxes, and sweat and who the laws don't apply to.
oh wow did i just hear on playback on hb... did romney just call the president corrupt???? michael steel says current president... no that was corrupt.... first romney is a liar and now will stoop to anything to win and he is a sorry salesman of himself......
I believe I will start calling Mittens, Flipper. Not because of his blowhole, but rather because he's a flip flopper. Ha Ha Ha!
Wait for it............ laugh track rolls. HA!
With wages at $7.50 an hour paying the military bill, the U.S. won't have much POWER anymore!
Of course Romney and his buddies in Congress and the media are once again accusing the POTUS of leaking documents and claiming these are the most dangerous leaks in our lifetime. Really? Because I remember in March 2006 when the Bush Administration published Iraqi documents on the internet in ARABIC at the insistence of the Republican Congressional leaders that included DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS with DIAGRAMS on how to build an ATOMIC BOMB. Yet there was no investigation at all by the Republican Congress, why would there be they were the ones who insisted that they be leaked and published, and there was no coverage by the right wing media.
These clowns are the biggest hypocrites in the history of the nation and perhaps in the history of the world and the lame scream media simply doesn't employ real journalists, but merely political hacks these days.
Chris and I were standing on the side of the road the other day. While standing there a full grown man rode a small girls bike into heavy traffic, narrowing being missed by several cars. I looked at Chris and said "That guy is an idiot". Chris nodded in agreement and said " Yes he is. No man that big should ever ride such a little bike".
Just like my friend Chris. You, mister "thrill up your leg" can make the most useless and disconnected conclusions of events that happen, that watching you is like watching a comedy show with a slow train wreck. Thank you for the entertainment.
Only you would think a traffic accident or train wreck was a comedy or entertainment.
Thanks again for your commentary on nothing at all.
Now you can go back to your hate filled right wing radio shows.
Thrill: Thank you. Anything for you Chemdmd.
TAX HAVENS: SUPER RICH 'HIDING' AT LEAST 12 TRILLION DOLLARS.
Please review and watch the video on the article. I would like your thoughts.
Petitions/ End Bush Tax Cuts and a few other good ones!
http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action/public/