When you've got the ball, you run it as far down the field as possible. We can expose the entire 60 year-old war-profiteering scam this time!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3808019&mesg_id=3808019(Tonight I heard Mike Malloy mention this topic on his show at 10:08PST. I think he saw this thread and passed it on. Cool.
My terse subject line isn't resignation. It is a spur to tell the WHOLE truth of how we got into this mess so it never happens again.)
There are thousands of hydrogen bombs targeted on cities ready to be launched by accident. We've come within seconds of ending life on Earth multiple times and RECENTLY. Don't wait for 2008 or 2012 to start preventing the Armageddon the fundies are wishing for.
Yes, this DSM flap will make bigger cracks in the GOP which is ready to splinter, FINALLY.
Yes, more and more Americans are getting better informed about how this war was SOLD as a "slamdunk" when it was all just lies and spin.
Yes, this will cinch the bad 'gut' feeling the casual spectators have about this heavily spun war.
Yes, this DSM will recharge the outrage and grassroots organizing to get REAL Dems back into the party instead of dribbling away.
These 'yeses' are fabulous steps that absolutely need to be made and the DSM should be waved like a bloody flag in everyone's face until they GET IT.
No, don't go "down a bunny hole into an underground sea of red herrings." The DSM really can be catalyzed into a BIGGER realization of
-who got us into this mess
-why they did it
-how they did it
-how long this scam has been goin' on
so it isn't just repackaged for resale again 'under new management.'
THIS 'Vietnam Syndrome' must be made to stick so we can turn this permanent war-profiteering machine off and literally save the world from its myriad poisons while we still have air to breathe, water to drink, and fish in the sea.
Is this realistic? Isn't war a permanent human condition?
HELL NO! Look here.
The short time between the end of the Korean War, 1953, and the anti-Vietnam protests of 1968 was a MERE 15 years! And this was after the 'Great War,' WWII, 'The Big One.'
An entire generation of American youth decided that, not just the Vietnam war, but WAR was no longer an answer, not even a "last resort." And it took incrementally larger 'actions' and then 9/11 to get Americans back into accepting long wars as some kind of solution.
Imagine that! 15 short years! At the height of the Cold War!
So war is not a permanent problem. It can be ended pdq by Americans before their government finishes off the ecosystems life depends on.
The nukes are sitting there ready to end our story BY ACCIDENT.
We don't have another 15 years to stop this madness and murder.
A chance for peace? To save us from annihilation?
GO FOR IT! GET THE WHOLE TRUTH OUT!