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Molly Ivins is back, and she's pissed

Molly Ivins evidently took some time off for cancer treatment, but she's posted a new column that says that she's had it with the war in Iraq, we need to get out now. (Thanks to Marv Plettner for posting a pointer to this column on the WELL.) I've avoided posting more about screwy neocons and the possibly sociopathic, clearly incompetent President we hopefully didn't elect, figuring others were doing a decent job – and it's great to have Molly back on the case. [Link]

This war is being prosecuted in our names, with our money, with our blood, against our will. Polls consistently show that less than 30 percent of the people want to maintain current troop levels. It is obscene and wrong for the president to go against the people in this fashion. And it's doubly wrong for him to send 20,0000 more soldiers into this hellhole, as he reportedly will announce next week.

What happened to the nation that never tortured? The nation that wasn't supposed to start wars of choice? The nation that respected human rights and life? A nation that from the beginning was against tyranny? Where have we gone? How did we let these people take us there? How did we let them fool us?

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there. Since 1215, civil authorities have been obligated to tell people with what they are charged if they're arrested. This administration has done away with rights first enshrined in the Magna Carta nearly 800 years ago, and we've let them do it.

This will be a regular feature of mine, like an old-fashioned newspaper campaign. Every column, I'll write about this war until we find some way to end it. STOP IT NOW. BAM! Every day, we will review some factor we should have gotten right.

jon posted this at 11:38 PM
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