Diet Fracas
July 30th, 2003
–photo from AP
Quite the scene in the Upper House of the Japanese parliament last Friday. The scuffle was set off when the majority party decided to send Japanese troops into Iraq, a live-fire region. The protesting lawmakers hold that this violates the pacifist Japanese constitution. Now if only we could get this kind of action in the Senate in Washington, D.C.
Now if only we could get this kind of action in the Senate in Washington, D.C.
I, too, thought the decision to send our troops into a pre-emptive war, to counter an unproven threat, against an enemy who had not provoked us, with no clear exit strategy and no clear estimate of how much it would cost definitely should have been the subject of at least one fistfight on the Senate floor, but it was not.
Those darn wussies. Less yabbing and more jabbing, I sez!