NP; looks like the Dem Primary is kinda like Iceland Sparring.....

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I would be surprised to find an impassioned defense of US foreign policy 
here. One does not have to be a conspiracy theorist in order to 
understand why there is no voice for alternatives in the US government. 
The beauty of the two-party system is indeed that the imperial machine 
is not forced to make voting illegal. Not yet perhaps, that is.

For me, the complicity of the Democratic leadership is a given. What 
angers me is the willingness of the liberal/progressive community to 
comply and act like the last seven years have been business as usual and 
all that is needed to fix things is the right Democratic president. 
Anyone on earth with half a brain knew in 2003 that this was a war of 
choice, violating international law and based upon lies (of course, the 
lies have meanwhile been amply documented). If Democratic voters in the 
US choose to sit this presidency out, debating the relative merits of 
their centrist candidates instead of making clear that candidates will 
have to take the criminals to account, they are IMHO as complicit in the 
ongoing war crimes as their leadership has been from the beginning.

Also, they accelerate the descent of fascism upon the USA.

This is not to say that here in Germany things are much different. Our 
former Secretary of, uh, Defense, the miserable Rudolf Scharping, 
stumbled over a private affair instead of being put to trial for blatant 
war propaganda against Serbia.

Chris Floyd and Norman Solomon address the situation as I see it better 
than I ever could:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1444/135/

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/78638/

Thomas