I like This One
by James Glaser
March 10, 2010

Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on March 9, 2010 02:10 PM on Lew Rockwell's blog.

I have been informed by a correspondent to whom I am grateful (as I need a good laugh now and then) that Israel will not accept statehood. The message in full read:

"This will never happen. Israel would never agree to become a state because if they did they'd be allowed to have only 2 senators working for them instead of their current level of representation."

On A More Serious Note
by James Glaser
March 10, 2010

It has been reported by the Washington Post, that today the House will be debating if we should get out of "Afghanistan in 30 days—or by the end of the year, if it is determined to do so in a month would be too dangerous."

House leaders will allow three hours of formal debate, probably Wednesday, on an antiwar resolution written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), one of the leading antiwar voices in Congress. The resolution, which has 16 co-sponsors, calls for the United States to remove all of its troops from Afghanistan in 30 days—or by the end of the year, if it is determined that trying to do so in a month would be too dangerous.

Of course, nobody on the nightly news is talking about this. Our media does not care about troops dying in Afghanistan, nor do they care about Afghans dying in Afghanistan. The only thing they care about is whether or not the Health Care Bill will pass.

Everyone talks about wanting bipartisan legislation, and that is what this resolution is—bipartisan.

But the lawmakers supporting the resolution, a group that includes antiwar Republicans such as Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), say Congress needs to have a formal debate on the war.

"We haven't had a real debate," Kucinich said in explaining why he was pushing the resolution. "We want to light the fire of the American peace movement." (And, he added, "get out of there!")

Democratic leaders support bringing the measure to a vote to give antiwar lawmakers an opportunity to register their frustration with Obama's decision to increase troop levels by 30,000 before Congress approves the funding for the surge.

So, here we have a debate about ending our war in Afghanistan happening on the House floor that is endorsed by members of both parties. That action, if passed, will save us hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars, and the major news outlets of America are ignoring it.

Not only does the Military Industrial Complex own the White House, the Senate, and much of the House, it looks like they also own our media.

Here is the one silver lining in this whole process.

"There are many members in the caucus who are eager to have a vote soon on Afghanistan," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said when Kucinich proposed the measure. "This may satisfy that need."

The vote will be a measure of the depth of opposition to Obama's war policy, because it is not tied to troop funding, which lawmakers in both parties are loath to vote against.

If an anti-war politician voices his or her objection to funding a war, they are jumped on by every war hawk in Congress, accusing them of putting out troops in danger. This debate is about the merits of this war, and House members will be able to speak their minds without the fear of being branded as willing to pull equipment and arms from our troops.

Who knows, we might just get an honest debate in our House of Representatives.

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