They're Not Benchmarks

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These are our much vaunted BENCHMARKS. This is how the Democratic Party is "standing up to" Bush and Cheney. Let's face it. The Iraqi government is better representing the wishes of the American people in this matter right now. The following groups and organizations want to end the occupation:

The Iraqi Parliament
The Iraqi people
The active-duty US troops in Iraq
The American people

The following groups and organizations want to keep funding this war:

The White House
The Congress
The war profiteers
The U.S. media

But who is most impacted by the other benchmarks, the graves, the endless miles of dead bodies? Imagine trying to fit a million, three thousand, four hundred dead bodies into the U.S. Capitol. They would not fit. Not unless somebody burned them. Come to think of it, that might be a contract worth bribing someone for.

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David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" by Seven Stories Press and of the introduction to "The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. (more...)

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