Editorial: The continued silence

With a number of members of the House of Representatives calling for newly elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to hold a vote on the current wars on Iraq and Syria, you have to wonder where are those 'leaders' of the not-so-distant past?

Leslie Cagan?

She's presumably getting her mustache and chin whiskers waxed.

Tom Hayden?

The old drunk offered numerous Tweets in October.

Only one referenced war -- specifically it linked to his letter to THE WASHINGTON POST about the Afghanistan War.

That's leadership?

It's more than Dennis Kucinich - the one-time 'peace' candidate -- can offer.

His last Tweet was about the Pope.

It's not that Tweets can't matter.

Some can use their voices wisely.

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But far too many have elected to sit in silence when it comes to Iraq.

Oh, they will occasionally let out a roar . . . if they can slam Bully Boy Bush -- who, please remember, thankfully left the White House in January 2009.

But otherwise, they have nothing to say about Iraq.

This despite the continued war.

Do they really think that -- having silenced their voices to avoid calling out Barack Obama -- that anyone's going to listen to them -- let alone take them seriously -- when Barack's out of the White House?