Time To Hold "The People Who" Accountable
May 17, 2010
What Obama needs to demonstrate now is a profile in courage. The courage to fire the forces on the right who he has allowed into positions of responsibility in his Administration,
The courage to stand up to the forces on the right who sold materiel to the enemy during World War II, who illegally encouraged the South Vietnamese not to end the war before the 1968 election, who encouraged the Iranians to hold Americans hostage until after Reagan's Inauguration in exchange for weapons, who illegally supplied weapons for use by the Contras in Nicaragua in exchange for illegal drugs imported with Reagan's help into the United States, who were unable or unwilling to focus on the bountiful information available prior to 9/11 which, in the hands of any competent Cub Scout troop would have stopped the events of that day, who wrongly for their own political ends falsely told the world that there were WMD in Iraq, who grossly mishandled the fight in Iraq, who willfully ignored the opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora, who have mishandled the fight in Afghanistan since the prior regime fell in December 2001, and who now want to continue to maintain (at an expense in excess of $125B per year) over 200,000 U.S. and foreign troops and contractors in Afghanistan instead of trying to speak with, and perhaps successfully negotiate a political settlement with, all of those who live in Afghanistan.