I Tremble for My Country …
“Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson quoted today by George McGovern in today’s WaPo, in which he lucidly states the case for impeaching Bush and Cheney.
Which is good enough for me. I would add the quote from historian Will Durant: “It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.” But the joke’s over.
My favorite excerpt from McGovern’s assessment: “The dominant commitment [of high crimes and misdemeanors] of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion — by far the highest in our national history.”
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Great post! And good to know McGovern still pipes up as a conscience for the country.
Comment by Arthur2 — January 8, 2008 @ 7:56 am