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I seriously Lawl at the democrats thinking that their candidate will end the war if elected. 90% of the candidates are nothing but closet Communitarians and they aren't going to change anything in a way that is going to matter or make a difference.
Dems ending the war in 08. Yeah right, didn't the midterm elections teach you people anything about this entrenched establishment farce we are calling "democracy"? Isn't it obvious to you yet that Washington doesn't call the shots or are you still desperately clinging to the sliver of faith that you have left in "the system" to rescue you, give you free health care from cradle to grave, police the world, and put that big entitlement net under you? More like RFID chips and papers please via RealID, paranoia, fearmongering, secret prisons and torture. It doesn't matter which communitarian candidate wins.
Keep clinging, you are grasping straws. The system is broken, and one of the reasons Paul has support from a lot of people is because he is willing to dissolve the empire and get us back to basics. Besides, Paul believes in checks and balances, doesn't buy the Unitary Executive nonsense, respects Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus, and has stated that he knows he can't dissolve the federal government overnight, but he can try to change our minds about the welfare/warfare nipple, especially the fallacy that the left and right both share in that you can properly manage and have one and not have the other (they are two sides of the same coin). Of course I can't say that about anyone else running. I imagine they will go take their throne and start consolidating their power and promoting the big lie.
The dems will get into oval office and Iraq will either be business as usual or we will retreat to our permanent bases and let the Blackwater army (which would be at about 10x the number of "The Troops" since there are no controls or caps regarding contractors) continue to loot and pillage both the Iraqi people and the US Taxpayer. The dems will wield and abuse the same power that the republicans did, and they will bow to the same special interests (e.g Pelosi and her "Hey Bush, go ahead and nuke Iran while I look the other way because a room full of Far-right Zionist Jew Hawks don't like me" favor to AIPAC). No matter who wins, Iraq will be treated as the "new Korea" with a permanent military presence while the troops are "redeployed" to chase more ghosts.
As far as the establishment is concerned regarding Iraq, we aren't going anywhere and Cheney is itching to Nuke Iran to save his Neocon 'legacy'. Thanks to the establishment, this war is just getting started. Wake up already. According to the dems we have always been nation builders, and now according to the repubs we are as well.
The good ol' United States of Communitarianism.
