DemoBrats

If actions speak louder than words, we should
Regard men's records more than rhetoric
Yet witness how, as Democrats contend,
Usurping principle is politic.

Conveniently the candidates lay claim
To counter carnage on Iraqi field
But as the wind blows, cowards change their tune
Who bayed for Baghdad's blood with lips unsealed.

There's Kerry, fellow bonesman with Herr Bush,
Both lied about weapons of mass destruction,
Followed by Edwards, who like him betrayed
The Constitution, countenanced corruption.

Wes Clark, a Bush supporter from the start,
Sprinkled irradiation from the sky,
Sponsored atrocity and cluster bombs
In Serbia, concealment though he try.

Even the doctor Howard Dean gave voice
To unintelligent intelligence
Before the impious, infamous invasion
On fabrication, fiction, and pretense.

Joe Lieberman, meanwhile, kein lieber Mann,
Republican in Democratic skin,
Apologist for Cheney and his ilk,
Has ever rallied to the prince of sin.

One congressman, sole voice among this throng,
Saw through the dull deception from the start.
Dennis Kucinich, whom I lately met,
Alone exemplifies the statesman's art.

January 2004

Jeremy Scahill reports: "as most of the candidates vie to distinguish themselves as the firm anti-war candidate, there is one fact that none of them wants to discuss. That is, that before the invasion of Iraq, five of the Democratic Candidates promoted one of the Bush administration's key justifications for the war, the allegation that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Only Ohio Congress member Dennis Kucinich, the Reverend Al Sharpton and Ambassador Carol Moseley-Braun consistently called these allegations into question. Even Howard Dean, the democrat who has gotten the most visibility as an anti-war candidate, echoed the allegation put out by the Bush administration. On March 9, 2003, just days before the invasion began, Dean told Tim Russert, on NBC's Meet The Press, 'I don't want Saddam staying in power with control over those weapons of mass destruction. I want him to be disarmed.'" ('Democracy Now' Radio, Jan. 27, 2004)