'Wes Clark now bends his considerable political skills to uniting the Democratic Party. On March 29th, the Democratic Party released a Real Security Agenda—this was a unified national security and foreign policy plan that every single Democrat in the Senate and the House of Representatives had agreed on. The only potential 2008 candidate allowed to speak at the event was Wes Clark. Behind him stood the assembled might of the entire Democratic Party, rank upon rank of Senators and Congressional Representatives, from Reid to Pelosi to Kerry to Hillary Clinton. All the Democrats of Capitol Hill stood silently on the stage behind Clark, presenting a united front and following Clark’s lead.

Today there is an excellent op-ed in the NYTs reminding us about the tragic
side of the Revolutionary War. Americans were the first insurgents and held in
horrible prison conditions in New York and on prison ships. More men died in these
prisons than died on the battlefields. The British said these men were insurgents
and not entitled to protection as prisoners of war. This was before there were
international treaties on treatment of prisoners of war. Our very own first
Americans were treated as we have treated the "enemy combatants" and insurgents
in Bush's GWOT. The precident existed before and our very own American history