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May 7, 2007 at 12:38:16

Let's Hear It For Hillary

by Lawrence R. Velvel     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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            Lawrence Velvel, the Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, points out in poetry that Hillary, almost all the other pols, and the mass media are misleading the American people by pretending that a cut off of funds for the Iraq war means that money could not be used to protect the troops during withdrawal.  To the contrary -- a bill cutting off funds for the war could provide that funds nonetheless can be used for the purpose of protecting troops during withdrawal.

   

May 7, 2007

 Re:  Let’s Hear It For Hillary. From: Dean Lawrence R. Velvel 

Here is a poem quick

About another move putatively slick

By Hillary,

The woman of two faces

Who now before us places

A bill to repeal the war’s authorization

As a means to require its cessation;

Knowing the bill would be vetoed,

Knowing this could not be overrode

Because the needed two-thirds is lacking.

Since peace in this country has insufficient backing;

Knowing her bill would mean only more of the same --

More deaths by the thousands in today’s “Great Game”;

Knowing that even if the bill by a true miracle were passed

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http://velvelonnationalaffairs.com/

Lawrence R. Velvel is the Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, which educates the working class, mid-life people, minorities and immigrants. He is the editor of a journal called The Long Term View, hosts an hour-long TV book show called Books of Our Time, which appears in the New England and Mid-Atlantic states on Comcast's CN8 and is streamed on the internet, and hosts a radio program called What The Media Doesn’t Tell You.  The radio program, which is carried on World Radio Network and is streamed on the internet, discusses important matters which the media doesn’t disclose (or insufficiently discloses) and the reasons for the nondisclosure.

Velvel wrote a 1970 book on the constitutionality of the Viet Nam War and civil disobedience, and a recent quartet called Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam, comprised of:  Misfit In America; Trail of Tears; The Hopes and Fears of Future Years: Loss and Creation; and The Hopes and Fears of Future Years: Defeat and Victory.

Velvel blogs at velvelonnationalaffairs.com. His 2004 and 2005 posts have been published in Blogs From the Liberal Standpoint: 2004-2005.

 

 

 

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