WE NEED MORE CANDIDATES LIKE DAN GRANT (TX-10), WHO KNOW HOW TO STAND UP TO BUSH REGIME DECEPTION

Yesterday John Amato had a stunning question over at Crooks & Liars: "Who will raise our children if we're dead or seriously wounded?" This was from foreign service employees being ordered to go serve in the middle of the chaotic, explosive Iraqi Civil War. John's got some dramatic video (at the link above)-- not from Baghdad, but from Foggy Bottom. Do you think it may also be in the backs of the minds of some of the soldiers who are over in Iraq, particularly the National Guards units?

Today the right-wing propaganda sheet, Weekly Standard attacked Dan Grant, a former U.S.Aid worker (who they mistakenly label "a State Department official"), previously stationed in Baghdad, currently running for Congress against right-wing/corporate fave, the Congressman from Clear Channel, Michael McCaul (R-TX).

Dan has earned the ire of right-wing extremists by doing finding one of their Achilles Heels and slamming them in it. Weakly Standard is crying because Dan ran a TV spot that shows coffins of fallen American soldiers, coffins the Regime that the Weakly Standard shills for has assiduously attempted to hide from the American public. Last Wednesday DWT ran the ad. Take a look at it again in honor of Clear Channel and the Weakly Standard and Fox and all the other Republican Party propaganda outlets dedicated to deceiving the American people:



The Weakly Standard (Drivel) calls this powerful ad "a wretched thing." They've never called, nor would they under any circumstances call, George Bush or his Texas puppet McCaul, wretched things-- regardless of the fact that they both are. The Weakly accuses Grant of "moral trespass" for showing the coffin. It scares the bejesus out of the Bush Regime and their enablers that Americans get a visceral idea about what's happening, for real and on the ground, in Iraq. They spend millions of dollars monthly on p.r. specialists and propagandists to make Bush's agenda seem benign and bloodless and even noble. When real Democrats stand up and call them on it and throw it in their faces, they get hysterical. We need more Dan Grants and less collaborationist Democrats like Rahm Emanuel and Steny Hoyer who play right into Bush's hands either unwittingly or, more likely, quite willingly.