General Petraeus and his retinue of assorted flunkies appeared before the United States Senate yesterday. He told them how it is and how it will be in Iraq. The war will go on to suit his timetable, seeming to be unconcerned about how the people he supposedly works for feel about it.
There was talk of agreements they may enter into with the Iraq "government". This did cause concern among some of the Senators who may be worried about "advice and consent" as is written in the Constitution of the United States, referred to below.
"Clause 2:
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur----------"
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur----------"
I awoke in the middle of the night with a vision of the surreality of the whole proceeding. Somehow it morphed into visions based on the strange and disturbing Patrick McGoohan tv show, "The Prisoner".
Are we prisoners of the "Military-Industrial Complex" that we were warned about by President Eisenhower? More and more it would seem so. Can we afford another 4-8 years of the same love of war and disrespect of the Constitution as we have had from the BushCheney gang?
It could be disastrous to the vision of our forefathers and their genius.
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