Senate Passes Silly, Or Is It Foreboding, Resolution

MoveOn, an organization comprising over 3 million people, ran a full-page ad in the NY Times taking issue with a Bush-appointed official spinning misinformation for the administration. The criticism from MoveOn was not directed at the troops on the ground, and the military in general, who are suffering the effects of this administrations lies, corruption, and mismanagement. The criticism was directed at the man used by the White House to sell another chapter in their never-ending war for profit. General Petraeus was the focus, and Betrayus is how the ad labeled him.

While our children are injured and dying in the desert of a foreign country, and we pour billion after billion into a war for oil and empire, on Friday, Sept. 21, our senators wasted time passing a silly, and yet forebodingly dangerous, resolution objecting to that organization exercising its First Amendment right in criticizing government policies.

Where were all these “patriots” now calling foul on the Petraeus ad when Max Cleland and John Kerry – both former soldiers who actually fought on the battleground for their country – were smeared? Oh, that