Congressional Cowards

February 5, 2005

Iraq had a democratic election a little while ago. The big problems were threats and bombs at polling places before and during the election. Despite this, many Iraqis voted though we don't know how many. This was certainly an act of courage on their part and the symbol of that, was an ink-stained finger after voting.

How many Americans would vote under the threat of death? Not many. How many would even want an ink stained finger? None! Millions don't register and millions don't vote for a variety of life threatening reasons like, "It's raining" or "I don't have time".

No time indeed!

At the State of the Union address on February 2nd, many Congressional members, mostly Republicans, arrived with ink stained index fingers presumably to show solidarity with voting Iraqis. How dare they! What cowards they are.

Not one would vote in Iraq. Not one!

How much courage did it take for them to make a self serving political statement for national television? Not much. These cocooned and muddle-headed politicians arrived in limos, and were escorted through exceptional security to sit for a while. There was nothing to risk and yet they are implying a kinship with voting Iraqis.

Shame!

Those congressional cowards used the Iraqi election and courage for self serving politics and in doing so, disrespected all Iraqis. They do not understand what courage is. How could they?  Few members have even served in the military or put their lives at risk to do much of anything.

They seem to think they had something substantially invested in the Iraqi election. Not true. They don't get it, again. The people who "risked it all" were voting Iraqis and the U.S. servicemen protecting them. They have courage our Congress does not have.

Congress must get its head out of its collective ass and understand that "commitment to freedom" means more than a show of fingers.

They need to understand that many Americans would like to "give them the finger" for their failure to critically look at the War in Iraq. They need to put down their hypocritical fingers and start serving the interests of all Americans.