War Without End, Amen: Dem Leaders Limber Up for Double-Cross

Ain't that the truth

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

...Raimondo also correctly pegs the deeper darkness behind the Beltway debate: both the Democratic and Republican Establishments want to acquire Iraq for the American Imperium, now that the prize has been set in play by Bush's war of aggression. The "leadership" of both parties still believe that some kind of ill-gotten gain can be wrought from this maelstrom of ruin and murder, and so they continue to dither over dinky details of meaningless bills while the war rages on, killing its thousands and tens of thousands, driving Iraqis from their homes in a Biblical-scale exodous, and engendering lasting, embittered hatred for the United States around the world...

continua / continued