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The presidency of George W. Bush will be remembered primarily as an administration of failure and incompetence. From the war in Iraq to the response to Katrina, from the commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence to the Vice President's energy "task force," this administration has squandered the goodwill of not only Americans, but people around the globe...and with good reason.
Bush's presidency will be remembered by history as an unfortunate accident.
But there is little room to doubt that the American plebiscite elected Democrats to end the war, bring home American troops, and to re-design US foreign policy.
And it's time the Democrats started doing so....So far, all the congressional majority has achieved is talk...empty promises and even emptier threats....
It's time for the Democratic majority to stop talking and start acting using every available means at their disposal---invoking constitutional authority, devising legislative strategies, passing laws, and applying political pressure----to end an unmitigated disaster of the Bush administration's making.
Many of the Democratic presidential hopefuls are current members of the US Senate: they should begin acting, as former Sen. Mike Gravel has urged, to end the farce of American occupation of Iraq and to stop sending Americans to Iraq to be killed.
It's time Iraq stands up as a nation, not a puppet-government of American imperialism, and begins to govern itself.
The American presence in Iraq threatens US security interests, destabilizes the Mideast, attracts terrorists, and erodes US standing in the world community.
To send more troops to Iraq is to sign the death certificates of our brave men and women deployed in Iraq.
The DEmocrats must act, and act now, to end the war.
