Unanimous Conformity in the Senate

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 10:13

Norman Solomon
July 2, 2010

Watch — Norman Solomon: From Wall Street to the war, this isn’t what progressive democrats voted for
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For the warfare state, it doesn’t get any better than 99 to 0.

Every living senator voted Wednesday to approve Gen. David Petraeus as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

Call it the unanimity of lemmings—except the senators and their families aren’t the ones who’ll keep plunging into the sea.

No, the killing and suffering and dying will be left to others: American soldiers who, for the most part, had scant economic opportunities in civilian life, and Afghans trapped between terrible poverty and escalating violence.

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