Democrats again betray voters, continue Iraq War funding — as the troops begin to revolt

13 months ago voters put Democrats in charge of the U.S. Congress with a clear mandate: End the unconstitutional, unjust, and deadly Iraq war.

Democrats repeatedly have betrayed that mandate. They have betrayed the voters. They have betrayed the troops who keep dying.

Democrats just approved, again, further funding for the war. If this were a free country, instead of funding the war, Congress would impeach Bush and Cheney for continuing the war without a declaration of war, as stipulated by the U.S. Constitution. Or at least Congress would end the funding and bring the troops home.

Meanwhile, U.S. troops in Iraq are getting fed up with the folly of Bush the Unready. Some are beginning to mutiny. The Army Times reports:

…. 2nd Platoon had gathered for a meeting and determined they could no longer function professionally in Adhamiya — that several platoon members were afraid their anger could set loose a massacre.

“We said, ‘No.’ If you make us go there, we’re going to light up everything,” DeNardi said. “There’s a thousand platoons. Not us. We’re not going.”

They decided as a platoon that they were done, DeNardi and Cardenas said, as did several other members of 2nd Platoon. At mental health, guys had told the therapist, “I’m going to murder someone.” And the therapist said, “There comes a time when you have to stand up,” 2nd Platoon members remembered. For the sake of not going to jail, the platoon decided they had to be “unplugged.”

Three months ago, William Bloom predicted that, because neither Bush nor Congress would end the war…

Only those fighting the war can end it. By laying down their arms and refusing to kill anymore, including themselves. Some American soldiers in Iraq have already refused to go on very dangerous combat missions. Iraq Veterans Against the War, last month at their annual meeting, in St. Louis, voted to launch a campaign encouraging American troops to refuse to fight. “Iraq Veterans Against the War decided to make support of war resisters a major part of what we do,” said Garrett Rappenhagen, a former U.S. Army sniper who served in Iraq from February 2004 to February 2005. The veterans’ group has begun organizing among active duty soldiers on military bases. Veterans have toured the country in busses holding barbeques outside the base gates. They also plan to step up efforts to undermine military recruiting efforts.

Shouldn’t the troops follow orders? Not if the orders are immoral or unlawful. At a minimum, the whole Iraq War is unlawful because, again, there never was a declaration of war by Congress.

If Bush, Cheney, Pelosi, Hillary, and other chickenhawks like this war so much, let them go over there and fight it themselves.

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