As thew Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Sen Carl Levin has shown himself to be a full supporter of the war in Afghanistan.
I wonder if there will be any adjustments to his thinking after the current revelations.
As US unemployment edges closer and closer to that of the Great Depression, Sen. Levin says we must commit to an expansion of opportunity to the citizens of...AFGHANISTAN.
http://levin.senate.gov/...
October 29, 2009
We must make a commitment to, and substantial investments in...the expansion of economic opportunity for Afghanistan’s people.
http://www.alternet.org/...
July 1, 2010
CODEPINK members (questioned Levin): "Senator, how can you spend $33 billion more for an unwinnable war when your hometown of Detroit is falling apart?" said Tighe Barry, who is from Detroit.
It was the only time the Senator lost his cool. Shaking his finger at the protesters, he yelled, "I live in Detroit. You don't know what you're talking about. Detroit's problems have nothing to do with the war."
But wasting billions of dollars on more killing in Afghanistan means starving our cities of financial resources, and Detroit is a tragic example of this trade-off.
In other words, Levin says -- shaking his finger -- "You don't know what you're talking about. Afghanianians come before Detroiters." So fuck you, fuck them and all the horses you rode in on."
And, according to Levin, we, the Democrats, solidly support this.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
July 17, 2010
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., has said that there remains "solid support" for the war among Democrats...
Now this is news to me. Do we really solidly support this clusterfuck, or whatever the hell it is war?
The preamble to the Constitution of the United States, in pertinent part:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility...promote the general Welfare...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Someone needs to remind the good Senator that it's the U.S. - not Afghanistan -- in the Constitution.