The Black Commentator: 3 Who See the War Clearly...

[AntiFascist]

I can't say whether voting Yes on the Republican resolution was the correct thing to do, but this editorial may shed some light on what's up with the DLC. This may be VERY IMPORTANT:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/160/160_cover_see_war_clearly.html


Only three Democrats voted on the issue of the Iraq war, last Friday. The rest followed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s directives, a continuation of her "strategy" of insulating the pro-war wing of the party, centered in the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), from the wrath of the party’s base, which is now overwhelmingly anti-war. For the DLC’s sake, Pelosi smothers the party’s progressive wing - of which she was once a proud member. Thus, the San Francisco congresswoman maintains the fiction of a united House Democratic front, to disguise the flaccid reality: the pro-war faction has veto power over Democratic Iraq policy - a veto exercised by Pelosi, herself.

Of the 42 Black Caucus members in the House, only one dared buck Pelosi’s discipline: Cynthia McKinney (GA), joined by New York’s Jose Serrano and Florida’s Robert Wexler.

The three faced the choice of defying Pelosi (and, in McKinney’s case, the CBC leadership’s similar attempts to put forward a face of unity without purpose) or to take advantage of the only chance available since October, 2002 to express an unqualified NO to the Iraq war.

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The Republicans were baiting the Democrats, knowing full well that the last thing Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton - and yes, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean - want to allow the public to observe is the extent to which Democrats in congress support a continuation of the war.

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THERE'S MUCH MORE!

[Conker]

1. Why is the DLC still supporting the war?

Are they trying to appeal to moderates, and Republicans?This split in the party is only confusing people about Democrats, and what they stand for.

[AntiFascist]

2. My guess....

is that they are only appealing to certain 1% of the Democrats, the wealthy pro-war ones.

[yurbud]

3. they are courting corporations not people

That is why they exist.

See this brief history:


http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/7/dreyfuss-r.html