So, $70 billion more for the Terror War, then. There were no filibusters, no "holds" on continuing this abomination, which in addition to slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians is also shredding America's military — those soldiers whom the warmongers "support" so much — in a useless, degrading, criminal action.

As we noted yesterday, even the slightest bit of moxie can gum up the works for the war-loot-and-tyranny machine. But this week's "hero," Chris Dodd, was nowhere to be found when the new war money was on the line. He was back on the campaign trail, with his fellow presidential aspirants from the Senate: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe "Ethnic Cleansing? Hell, Yeah!" Biden. Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy made fine speeches, and Feingold did offer a troop-withdrawal amendment — but again, there was no filibuster, no sand thrown in the gears. The bill had been constructed — by the Democratic leadership, which is in charge of the Senate, after all — in a way to make it almost impossible for the politicians to derail it: it was tied to an omnibus spending bill whose defeat could have risked a Gingrichian shut-down of some government services. ("If you don't vote for this war, poor children are going to go hungry and the national parks will close!")

It didn't have to be that way, but that's the way it was — because that's the way the Democratic leaders wanted it. They have absolutely no intention of stopping the war crime before the presidential election....and no intention to withdraw from Iraq after the election either. The Red Wheel of mass death will keep on rolling.

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