[Peace-discuss] US betrayed by Democrats again

[Ricky Baldwin]

We may have reached a point where civil disobedience
is the only appropriate response.

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [That motto -- "De-escalate, investigate, troops
> home now" -- wouldn't 
> make a bad poster for Saturday's demo.  Discommoding
> that awful 
> apparatchik Rahm Emanuel is another triumph for
> Sheehan. --CGE]
> 
> 
> The Democrats got off to a rocky start unveiling
> some of the first 
> pieces of their Iraq-free House agenda:
> 
>      "House Democrats tried to unveil their lobbying
> reform package 
> today, but their press conference was drowned out by
> chants from 
> anti-war activists who want Congress to stop funding
> the Iraq war before 
> taking on other issues.
> 
>      "Led by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a slain
> soldier, the 
> protesters chanted "De-escalate, investigate, troops
> home now" as 
> Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.,
> began outlining the 
> Democrats' plans to ban lobbyist-funded travel and
> institute other 
> ethics reforms. The press conference was held in the
> Cannon House Office 
> Building in an area open to the public.
> 
>      "Emanuel finally gave up trying to be heard
> over the chants, and 
> retreated to a caucus room where Democrats were
> meeting."
> 
> The fact that the protesters cast a pall over Rahm
> Emanuel's day in the 
> sun was especially sweet. He is notorious for
> supporting pro-war 
> Democratic candidates in primaries over antiwar ones
> with his access to 
> the enormous amount of money raised from corporate
> sources. Meanwhile, 
> it is becoming more and more clear that Bush will
> announce that he 
> intends to send at least 20,000 additional troops to
> Iraq. But Emanuel, 
> and the Democratic House leadership, thought it was
> more urgent to 
> address lobbying reform.
> 
> http://amleft.blogspot.com/
> 
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