[lit-ideas] The Spineless Senate & Its Ray Of Hope

No Leaders in Congress Against This War
CounterPunch ^ <http://www.counterpunch.com/> | September 29, 2005 | Winslow
T. Wheeler

Excerpt:
More than three decades ago, argument over the war in Indochina raged among
the public and in Congress. Today, opinion polls show real popular dispute
about the war in Iraq, but Congress shows no evidence of genuine debate,
just some toothless carping.

In the early 1970s, I sat in the staff gallery of the Senate and listened as
congressional leaders argued over the merits of bringing home the troops
from the divisive war in Indochina. Senators from both parties broke away
from the fabrications of the Johnson and Nixon administrations to oppose a
war they deemed not in the national interest. They cauterized policies that
sustained the calamity, while war advocates perceived endless lights at the
end of the tunnel and an end to freedom if the country did not stay the
course.

US candidate's anti-war appeal
News.com.au <http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16769025-23109,00.html> |
September 30, 2005

Excerpt:
POTENTIAL 2008 Democratic presidential contender Senator Russ Feingold has
made an early appeal to anti-war activists and set himself apart from
possible rivals by calling for a pullout of US troops from Iraq by the end
of next year.

No other Democrat pondering a run for the White House, nor any of the
party's congressional leaders or prominent foreign policy voices, has broken
with Republican President George W. Bush and endorsed a timetable for Iraq
withdrawal.
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Cheers,
M.A. Camp, Esq.

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