"I have heard the cries of children in the exploding houses of Falluja."

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"I have heard the cries of children in the exploding houses of Falluja."

Please Don't Go Back to Sleep

by Eve Ensler

July 8, 2005

Dear America: I am longing to reach you -- crossing this river of indifference and consumption and denial. I am trying to find you, reaching out through the desperate limitations of words and descriptions, swimming through the rhetoric of terror and God.

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America, those who now control our country have changed and ended law. I do not believe you are so calloused or selfish that you do not care. Your sleep is induced. You are distracted and derailed. The corporations have concocted and perfected these sleeping potions for years, developing ingredients to make you despise every bit of yourself, to feel ugly and fat and stupid and poor and not enough. And so you spend your time and every bit of the money you do not have buying products that will make you better, skinnier, lighter, whiter, tighter. And as you consume and consume, the corporations consume you. They take your money and your time and your voice and your instincts and your outrage and your sorrow and your anger and your grief. They consume your courage and leave fear in its place. They devour your conscience and your memory and your compassion.

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But I have heard the cries of children in the exploding houses of Falluja. I have seen the agonized faces of the sleepless Iraqi women who still clutch the outline of their charred dead babies in their arms. I have watched as we as a nation grow more isolated, despised and alone.

America, there is not much time left. The fire is spreading, consuming the world. We are the arsonists. We will need each other to find our way out through the lies and haze. It will take our greatest imagination, courage and skill to subdue these flames.

This letter was written immediately after The World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul where Ms Ensler served with thirteen others from around the world on a jury chaired by Arundhati Roy.

More at the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/eve-ensler/please-dont-go-back-to-s_3865.html

"A blanket of almost total media silence covers Bush and Blair's crimes in Iraq."

The nearly total suppression of any news regarding the two year endeavor of the World Tribunal on Iraq is ample evidence of why the media itself were explicitly charged in the Preliminary Declaration of the Jury of Conscience.

THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE VANISHING WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ

Media Lens July 6, 2005

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A blanket of almost total media silence covers Bush and Blair's crimes in Iraq and their support for relentless corporate exploitation around the globe. These war criminals continue to be presented as world-straddling father figures who could "solve" poverty in Africa and so become the beloved figureheads of a "great generation".

Consider that virtually the entire British media ignored the deliberations of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul from June 24-27. Modelled on Bertrand Russell's tribunal on the US invasion of Vietnam, the tribunal consisted of hearings into numerous aspects of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. A jury of conscience from ten different countries listened to the testimony of 54 advocates. This jury declared the war one of the most unjust in history:

"The Bush and Blair administrations blatantly ignored the massive opposition to the war expressed by millions of people around the world. They embarked upon one of the most unjust, immoral, and cowardly wars in history. The Anglo-American occupation of Iraq of the last 27 months has led to the destruction and devastation of the Iraqi state and society. Law and order have broken down completely, resulting in a pervasive lack of human security; the physical infrastructure is in shambles; the health care delivery system is a mess; the education system has ceased to function; there is massive environmental and ecological devastation; and, the cultural and archeological heritage of the Iraqi people has been desecrated." (World Tribunal on Iraq, 'Press Release about Jury Statement,' June 27, 2005, http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=93)

More at the link:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

My fellow Americans, my fellow peacemakers, please understand that your 'government' is not.

The majority of the individuals in the Executive and Legislative office buildings in Washington DC do not represent you, they do not defend your Constitution. They either lead or serve a corrupt imperialistic regime whose interests are the consumption of your tax dollars to provide profit margins for the war making and petroleum industries and their subsidiaries.

My fellow Americans, you now provide your tax dollars to the largest militarist budget on the planet and the least you should require is that that budget be called what it truly is - the Department of World Aggression.

We are the war makers, we are the aggressors.

No time for sleep, my fellow peacemakers, or we will have allowed the neoconsters to destroy humanity, not just America.

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us