Last night in the Democratic presidential debate, the 76-year-old Mike Gravel, former senator from Alaska, was the voice of truth. As the six anti-Bush warmongers–five morons and the creepy Hillary–supported the warfare state and the empire, Gravel spoke out for peace and against their charade.
He noted that Obama and others had said that “all options are on the table” in aggressing against Iran, meaning nukes. He said that the US spends more on the military than the rest of the earth combined. He said that the US has no enemies that threaten it in any fundamental sense, but rather than the US threatens others, and that de-hegemonization is the only path to peace. He added that the military-industrial complex owns American politics and culture.
I liked Gravel when he was an antiwar (and antidraft) senator during Vietnam. What a delight that he is in the debates, bothering the monsters on stage and in the press, including open propagandists like David Broder and partisan phonies like Keith Olbermann.
What about Kucinich? There is a certain gravitas deficit, and he is a commie.
8:38 am on April 27, 2007
