As if Vietnam never happened, we are watching the Republican politicians and some Democrats giving the failed war in Iraq a little more time. The GOP stalwarts, standing behind their bloodstained White House but not the American people, are saying that they will give the escalation until September before the break with the useless slaughter.

We have seen this before. With the Vietnam War well lost, the killing went on and on while that horrid old toad Henry Kissinger and his fellow Nobel Laureate to be, Le Duc Tho, made believe they were negotiating an end to what was already ended. The Nobel Prize has seldom been so sullied as to have been given to those two monsters.

For month after month they talked about footnotes to a contract that all knew was worthless. On and on went the talking over nothing, a big diplomatic game. Meantime, people died. They died and were maimed and ruined. For nothing.

Now the Republicans sing a September song, knowing full well that the results are fore-ordained. Meanwhile, Americans and Iraqis die. They are maimed and ruined. For nothing.

Someone will be responsible for every single death, each and every wound until the war is called off. How cynical to think: “For political cover I will be content that American servicepeople die.”

Die.

There is no other way to look at it. Our sons and neighbors are being sent to their deaths to let the Republicans off the political hook. Everyone who dies between now and “September” is on the Republicans– just as everyone who has died up to now is on the President, his administration, Joe Lieberman and the rest of the sorry fools who simply do not care that these brave soldiers have been lost, that their families are shattered.

For political cover.

How contemptible is that?

How on earth do they look themselves in the mirror, with the ghosts of their victims forever hovering around them?