DU Activists: TIME TO GET INTO ACTION ON SYRIA!

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36. Change the language slightly and you may have a better feeling about us and

our efforts. Did our efforts prevent the Bush Junta from committing a war crime and crimes against humanity? No. Did they prevent the Democratic leadership from being accessories before and after the fact to said crime? No. But letter-writing and calls have never prevented a crime from being committed, AFAIK. That said, Jane Harman (my rep at the time) was forced to step down from what would have been her chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee after the 2006 mid-terms. Gebhardt and Daschle are long-forgotten unpleasant memories. Even though the presumptive heir-apparent in 2008, Iraq hung like an albatross around Hillary's (and Biden's) neck. The person who did win the nomination in 2008 had taken an anti-war stance at about the same time you and I took the same stance. Granted, that person has now sold the anti-war movement down the river, as it were. But that's hardly new in politics. And now when President Obama needs allies, he won't find them among the progressive left and has to go begging for them from the fascists who scorn him for, of all things, his race.