JOSHUA FRANK: Taking the Antiwar Oath

By Joshua Frank -- World News Trust

Every so often a sliver of truth trembles off the lips of one of our elected officials. It doesn’t happen all that often, but when it does occur it needs to underscored and highlighted.

Representative Nancy Pelosi gave the antiwar movement an honest reality check last week when she laid out quite plainly the Democrat’s position -- er, non-position -- on the Iraq war. As she told the Washington Post, "There is no one Democratic voice ... and there is no one Democratic position."

In other words, the Democrats will not take a stand on the war and they won’t draw up a unified exit strategy anytime soon. And perhaps worst of all, they won’t be making the war a major focal point in the upcoming 2006 congressional elections. They’ll just continue to argue amongst themselves while more civilians and soldiers perish in Iraq.

The Democrats capitulate, yet again.

At least Pelosi is shooting it to us straight, I suppose. She’s not candy-coating her party’s ineptitude. Instead, she has spelled out their gross inadequacies word for bloody word. Her party is fractured and unable to muster any sort of real opposition to the Bush administration -- and she knows it. Not only do the Democrats disagree on how to take on the Republicans, they aren’t even sure they should.

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Honest assesment. We need to take a good hard look, all of us, at our party.

It is time for the DLC to get a spine - don't they represent us??