No War in Venezuela

 

Let me make this clear: the Chavez-Maduro era in Venezuela has been an utter failure and the United States and the world should bring pressure to bear to bring democracy to Caracas. But NOT by military means.

 

Venezuela is not a significant threat to the United States, the region, or the hemisphere. Michael Baumgartner needs to stop being a rubber stamp to Mike Johnson and take a stand against this insane saber rattling.

 

A war in Venezuela is another Vietnam, another Iraq - it is a quagmire waiting to happen and you don't need a degree from Harvard to see it coming. Remember the rhetoric.

 

The American people have been lied to by both Democratic and Republican presidents to get us into wars with no strategic value to us or the world. And countless dead later and trillions of dollars later no monetary, moral, nor military gains were made.

 

But corporate profiteers made a lot of money off the backs of working families who paid the taxes and the bodies of soldiers who arrived back at Dover and Travis Air Force Bases in flag-draped coffins.

 

The veneers for the Gulf of Tonkin and the invasion of Iraq were thin enough that Americans should have seen through it. But this administration's greed and hubris is unvarnished.

 

War is a nonpartisan issue. Congress has abdicated their constitutional responsibilities since January 21st and it's time they grow spines and put an end to this rush into a Venezuelan war.