Bring The War Home

Yes, it is past time to bring the war home, in the streets of every American capital and the U.S. capital.

Let the streets run red with American blood if necessary!

Bring The War Home:

During the Vietnam War, a favorite slogan of the antiwar movement was: Bring the War Home. It was, of course, a double entendre ; first, of course, it was a play on an earlier, more modest slogan ('Bring the boys home'). But it had a more threatening interpretation: that the Vietnam War had so divided the country that it was time to instigate a political war at home.

At this stage it might be too early to say so definitively, but it's clear that the Iraq War finally seems to be coming home, too. At the very least, the victory of Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman puts the war in Iraq at the very front and center of political debate for the next 12 weeks, until the November elections, and beyond.

The defeat of Lieberman was not, of course, a surprise. It had been anticipated widely among political cognoscenti , who were reading the polls. One by one over the past several weeks, leading Democratic moderates began drifting, like embarrassed Johnny-come-latelies, into, or at least into the vicinity of, the anti-war camp. Perhaps the clearest indication of that process came when, without much fanfare, the entire Democratic congressional leadership inked their names to a letter to President Bush demanding that a 'redeployment' of U.S. forces out of Iraq begin immediately, that is, before the end of 2006. From the letter, which has not, by the way, been widely quoted in the mainstream media:

We believe that a phased redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq should begin before the end of 2006. U.S. forces in Iraq should transition to a more limited mission focused on counterterrorism, training and logistical support of Iraqi security forces, and force protection of U.S. personnel. ' Mr. President, simply staying the course in Iraq is not working. We need to take a new direction.