Jeremy Scahill: The United States Has Become A 'Nation of Assassins' With Drone Attacks

[Luminous Animal]

73. Given that Romney hasn't critisized either Bush or Obama for their wars (that is, Romney

does NOT have an anti-war platform), I'd hope most Democrats can read war critics, post articles about war critics, discuss war, and make an intelligent decision to vote for a pro-war Democrat (a member of their own party) or a pro-war Republican (not a member of their own party).

I understand what you are saying. You believe that DUers cannot openly protest the wars and drone warfare. That, we must not speak any truth to power (and, indeed, the Presidency is power writ large) but must subsume ourselves to that power. That we can KNOW the misery that is perpetrated on innocents but we must not speak on the innocents behalf. That we cannot be courageous and continue the fight of our heroes but rather meek and silent in the face of massive human suffering that is done in our name.

Got it.

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Salvo