A NATIONAL DEMOCRAT WILLING TO TELL THE TRUTH! GUESS WHO!

Yesterday I was excited to see that a progressive anti-war candidate, Jonathan Tasini, is going to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for her New York U.S. Senate seat. I like it but I suspect that in the end progressives may have to actually run against war-supporting corporate Democrats like Clinton in the general elections, split the vote and let Republicans win. Sounds horrible, right? But what good does it do to have someone like Clinton in office? Just think of something she's good for.

At least Howard Dean, though under tremendous pressure from corporate Beltway careerist slime like Biden, Bayh and Lieberman to keep quiet for the sake of "party unity," has come out and said what most Democrats are afraid to say-- that there is NO WAY TO WIN THE WAR IN IRAQ, despite pie-in-the-sky scenarios painted by delusional Democrats like Wes Clark, Biden and Lieberman.

Dean was clear as a bell when he said in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio that the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong. I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening."

Instead of clearheaded, brave fighting Dems like Dean (and Murtha) we're stuck with a bunch of overly-cautious careerists like Kerry and Biden and Clark who are so nuanced and confused themselves that they confuse Americans into not knowing which is the war-crimes party and which is the peace party. Cindy Sheehan isn't confused. Today she endorsed Jonathan Tasini for U.S. Senate: "I am so pleased that Jonathan Tasini has stepped forward to challenge Senator Clinton and to take her on as an anti-war candidate. I encourage the people of New York to take a hard look at Mrs. Clinton’s dismal record on the illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq. Then take a hard look at what Jonathan is saying. We as people who strive for peace and justice should not support a candidate who advocates for continued killing on the basis of flimsy reasoning. It is time to hold the pro-war Democrats responsible for what they are saying and doing also." Amen.