Seduced and Abandoned
by Chuck Zlatkin Chelsea Neighbors United to End the War · June 25, 2008

This was a different kind of "worst week in the war."

Hearing Nancy Pelosi claim that she hoped this was the "last time" for this kind of funding was a maddening thing to hear. The Congress this past week voted another $162 billion dollars for the war in Iraq. This fully funds the war through June 2009. In 2006, the American people gave the Democrats the majority in Congress to end to the war. Now, with the lame duck Bush also the historically most unpopular President, the Democrats have mounted no resistance to giving George W. Bush all that he wanted. It was also the week that the Democrats voted to nullify the 4th Amendment by giving it all to George W. Bush in the expanded FISA legislation. In addition to giving amnesty to the major corporations who conspired with the Bush administration to violate our rights, it will now be legal for the Government to spy on any American, without a warrant, for one week.

The leadership of the Democratic Party has broken every promise it has made to us on ending the war in Iraq at the same time that it barters away our Constitutional protections. We are being led to believe that all we have to do now is elect Barack Obama to end the war. The only thing wrong with that is that there is still six more months to the Bush/Cheney criminal reign.

Now that Obama broke his pledge to participate in public financing, we should begin to wonder what other promises he will abandon for political expediency. It is getting hard to tell the progressives from the "blue dogs."

The past two years can accurately be characterized as the Bush/Cheney/Pelosi administration.