they had a congressional hearing in washington to look into the extent of the extra-judicial criminality around drone strikes in central asia. some kids that watched their grandmother get blown up for the crime of taking her grandkids for a walk showed up, flown in from pakistan.

number of congress-people that bothered to show up: 5 senators.
of those 5 senators, number that were republican: 0.

despite promises by nixon to end it (which probably won him the hippie vote, which probably won him the election), vietnam didn't end until the mid-70s when congress cut funding. instead, nixon attacked cambodia. "hope and change" = secret war. "defoliation". people like to compare obama to carter. no. nixon.

the current congress is a diminished shadow of the one that managed that feat. five democrats...

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/31/these_drones_attack_us_and_the