Cutting, fixing, healing

I have heard but one viable solution to the Iraq War Debacle, from the same source that has steadfastly offered thought out solutions to virtually all our country’s problems. Why on earth don’t we get behind the man? He IS our voice, near as I can tell.

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The boogey man is back! Killer Karl has through some Black Magic escaped what we thought was Patrick Fitzgerald’s crosshairs and instinct for bagging truth. Now on the loose, Killer Karl pounds his chest and roars: “See the Democrats cut and run!”

And oh my, how the Democrats now do run for cover, since most of them did, in fact, vote for the Iraq war, and don’t have a clue what to do. And my how they look like idiots, wanting to dump yet more innocent Iraqis into the jaws of certain, brutal death, either by “staying the course,” or, as Killer Karl is chanting, “cutting and running.” Murtha, Clinton, and the whole stinking bunch of mass murderers.

All, it seems, but one: One of the few who voted against the Iraq war, who vehemently opposed it since its inception, and who now, single handedly and with clear and steadfast mind, presents a workable solution. A solution perhaps best called “cutting, fixing and healing,” as opposed to either “cutting and running,” or “continuing the lies and butchering innocents,” as Killer Karl would have us do.

Thus I keep wondering why it is that we can’t support this one Bright Star in the presently dark heavens? Why can we not say, “Hey! You lying, killing bastard! Our President and Mass Murderer, Mr. Karl Rove! The Democrats you mock DON’T represent me! Over here, THIS is my man, this is the guy who DOES speak for me! He has all along and, based on his record, will continue to do so. His name is Dennis Kucinich.”

And even those dimmer bulbs who didn’t get out and vote for Kucinich in the primaries, might now benefit from saying something like, “Yo! We screwed up in the primaries, because we caved into peer pressure. Very, truly sorry. But no more. We grew some balls and brains and now realize that this Kucinich guy is the one who speaks for us. And here is our response to the Iraqi Holocaust, that we never wanted and wish now, seriously, to end. President Rove, we implore you to listen and for once attempt to control your killing instinct!”

The following is the plan that I support to bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq, the plan which Dennis Kucinich has so well articulated (and as far as this writer knows, the only bona fide plan around):

1. The United States must ask the United Nations to manage the oil assets of Iraq until the Iraqi people are self-governing.

2. The United Nations must handle all the contracts: No more Halliburton sweetheart deals, No contracts to Bush Administration insiders, No contracts to campaign contributors. All contracts must be awarded under transparent conditions.

3. The United States must renounce any plans to privatize Iraq. It is illegal under both the Geneva and the Hague Conventions for any nation to invade another nation, seize its assets, and sell those assets. The Iraqi people, and the Iraqi people alone must have the right to determine the future of their country’s resources.

4. The United States must ask the United Nations to handle the transition to Iraqi self-governance. The UN must be asked to help the Iraqi people develop a Constitution. The UN must assist in developing free and fair elections.

5. The United States must agree to pay for what we blew up.

6. The United States must pay reparations to the families of innocent Iraqi civilian noncombatants killed and injured in the conflict.

7. The United States must contribute financially to the UN peacekeeping mission.

8. The United Nations, through its member nations, will commit 130,000 peacekeepers to Iraq on a temporary basis until the Iraqi people can maintain their own security.

9. UN troops will rotate into Iraq, and all U.S. troops will come home.

10. The United States will abandon policies of "preemption" and unilateralism and commit to strengthening the UN.

Yes, at least for myself, this is the plan I’d prefer, to not abandon the Iraqi people, to not “cut and run,” and to no longer lie and kill, slaughter, maim and butcher, as you, President Rove, seem so intent on doing.

[10 points copied from Kucinich Iraq withdrawal plan website.]
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