This country is saying no to war.

[chieftain]

I am 68 years old. For the first time in my life, the people may actually prevent a military adventure from happening. I don't care whether the RW is only doing this out of Obama hatred. There is a clear and vocal majority saying no to bombing Syria. Congress and the President need to pay it heed.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. the Amercan public have had enough

[NaturalHigh]

2. Yes, the country is saying no.

I hope our "leaders" are listening.

[tecelote]

18. Our leaders who have a favorability rating just above Assad?

I hope so too, but our opinion on so many things has not mattered.

Truth is, the MIC needs more war. They'll get it one way or another.

As Americans, we need to vote these guys out.

With the crew we have in Washington now, we don't matter.

[liberal_at_heart]

3. It's nice to see people waking up. People have been asleep and not paying attention for too long.

[Cleita]

4. But...but...but...

Where will all the leeches from the MIC and Wall Street go for their buckets of blood in profits if we don't have more wars??

[David__77]

5. Thank you.

We all have to have solidarity. History could be made.

[chieftain]

6. It could be.

But you are right, we need to keep the pressure on the Congress and then the President.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. We might be saying more than no to war

But no to empire

[chieftain]

9. And that would not be a good thing

It would be a great thing.

[jwirr]

8. You made me smile because as bad as it seems you are right. We are finally ready to stop believing

that we are going to get somewhere by going to war. The last time I remember anything being accomplished by war was WWII. And then it was very costly both in lives and money. I still do not understand why we went to all the other wars. We did not seem to get anything out of them except a 1%.

[chieftain]

19. Good.

I have been wrestling with this situation and it finally occured to me that something of historic value could come out of it.

[NuclearDem]

10. However fucked up the reasoning...

I didn't think I'd see the day when conservatives, evangelicals, liberals, communists, and anarchists would rally around the same cause.

[vlakitti]

16. vlakitti

Thank you. I fit at least a couple of those categories and am so happy a gut check against bigpoohbah warmongering is a dominant attitude these days.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. A whole generation has been getting informed on the web instead of the nightly news.

[2naSalit]

12. Not to mention all the families

who have vets from our most recent wars coming home and not in good shape either physically and/or mentally. It's something that we, as a nation (actually our government) is not very good at addressing and they are very slow to act on. But we have a long history of that problem too.

As Sec. Kerry said the other day, they aren't asking for approval for "boots on the ground right now"... that comes later, I guess, after we hit that beehive with our dick, I mean stick (oops).

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. This picture should be burned into everyone's brain...

The backlog of veterans benefit claims.

[avaistheone1]

15. Shameful.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. It's better than it was under Bush. He was playing games that were over the top....

There were cases where someone received fatal wounds and while they were still alive in the hospital they were given an emergency medical discharge from the military so they were considered to have died as a civilian and they didn't appear on the casualty figures as a service member KIA. Then the Bush bastards would have the nerve to tell the family they weren't eligible for survivors benefits and make them go through the appeal process to prove their loved one died as a direct result of their service.

[Precisely]

14. ^^^^^^^^

[chieftain]

21. That is a true and important comment. eom

[mick063]

20. I see advertisements on television asking for donations to help fallen soldiers.

I feel great empathy toward those that have suffered catastrophic injury.

So much empathy, that I am angered that private charity is being hailed as the course to bring fallen soldiers back to some semblance of normalcy. This activity should be fully funded by all taxpayers collectively. Helping fallen soldiers with charity only reinforces pappy Bush's vision of "a thousand points" of light bullshit. In other words, removing financial moguls from their civic duty of paying fair taxes and playing upon the compassion of ordinary citizens to get fallen veterans back on their feet.

The military contractors and oil companies should face a "wounded soldier" tax similar to how it was suggested that coal companies should pay a carbon tax. The idea behind such taxes is to encourage alternate paths to those which cause great harm. As it is, there is greater financial incentive to create war than to stop war. The financial moguls cripple our young adults then plea to our compassion to help them in a voluntary manner.