During my life in Portland, I have either lived in David Wu’s district or in Earl Blumenhauer’s district.  I’ve come to regard David Wu as the least of Oregon’s five Representatives, someone who remains rather anonymous within a class of 435, while the other four have managed to attach themselves to pet issues.  But David Wu finally made some headlines with this speech:

“Now, this President has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek, who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren’t Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own.”

“Don’t led faux Klingons send real Americans to war. It is wrong.”

Combine this to Rick Santorum’s defense of the Iraq War by making Lord of the Rings Reference, and I have to now declare a moratorium of politicians attempting to make policy points with Science Fiction references.

The “Vulcans” in the context of the Bush Administration is popularized in the book Rise of the Vulcans, and apparently was a self-given nickname by Cheney — Rumsfeld — Powell — Wolfowitz — Rice — Armitage, etc.

I’m tempted to say that Wu has a point, but he really doesn’t.  Unlike the Real Klingons — which there aren’t any real Klingons because Star Trek is a work of fiction — these faux Klingons — who are Vulcans but are unlike the Vulcans you see on Star Trek — are chicken-hawks and avoided fighting the Vietnam War — which, best as I can tell, nobody on Star Trek fought either.  It becomes all so convoluted.

I don’t know if I want the real Klingons to send Americans to war, either.

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