Happy New Year! That's what we all yelled Sunday night. And let's hope to hell it is.
With Conyers, Waxman, and Pelosi at the ready, and Obama, Clinton, Edwards, and Vilsack steppin' up to the batter's box, looks like 2007 might be pretty good. Pretty good for minimum wage earners. Pretty good for kids without healthcare. Pretty good for parents struggling to send their kids to college. Pretty good for applying the breaks to old "stay the course", "surge" george. And it may very well turn out to be good for defense lawyers specializing in the government. We'll just have to wait and see.
The last big story of 2006 took place in Iraq, or should I say is still taking place in Iraq. First, there's the execution of saddam hussein. The debate, among most, concerning this hanging boiled down to whether or not you believe in the death penalty, or so I thought, but the Iraqi government couldn't even get the execution of enemy #1 right. Instead of having uniformed government soldiers or police execute the former dictator, the American backed Iraqi government had al sadr supporters dressed in jeans and leather jackets with sky masks pulled over their faces like street thug militia men do it. The hanging has been broadcast on the net, and is linked to the likes of the drudge report. The cellphone video taken by a witness looks more like a terrorist video then the act of a sovereign government that We support. I 'm not saying saddam hussein deserved confort. I am saying that the execution of the former dictator Breaks Iraqi Law. Shouting support for the leader of the Mahdi militia while they executed saddam sent a clear sectarian signal from the shiite militia to the sunnis of Iraq. Not good. Of course Bush praised the "fair trial" saddam was given. A "fair trial" that bushco. refuses to give to people the United States has captured and continue to detain. It begs the question, what have we created in Iraq and what have we become ourselves?
The rush of the Iraqi government to kill saddam, once they were granted custody by the United States, also sends a sign that the Iraqi Government is moving without the control of bushco. A friday night, on New Year's weekend, with a presidential funeral, a funky funeral, and college football? The campaigner in chief couldn't have liked that. Hell, he had to provide a "statement" from Crawford.
Unfortuantely, the first big story of 2007 is the breaking of the 3,000 mark in American Troops Killed in bush's war in Iraq. There has got to be a way out of there, and it needs to be with the support of the country, with the support of military, and with the support of the world, including those countries in the region and I'm not just talking about Israel.
So Happy New Year!
I leave you with this from Governor Spitzer's Inaugural Address.
"It will require a new brand of politics — a break from the days when progress was measured by the partisan points scored or the opponents defeated. No longer can we afford merely to tinker at the margins of the status quo or play the politics of pitting one group against another. We must replace delay and diversion with energy and purpose in the halls of our capital."
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