"EVERYTHING depends on our standing up"

[kpete]

"EVERYTHING depends on our standing up."

I Am Sick to Death of War and Madness
by One Pissed Off Liberal
Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 05:34:00 PM PST

My generation thought Vietnam was an aberration, but it wasn’t, it was the game plan. Lie your way into a nasty little war and let other people’s children do the killing and dying while the fat cats at the top of the capitalist pile rake in the dough. It’s all for the benefit of those so bloated with greed that they just don’t care that their profits come soaked in the blood of innocents and patriots.

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Nearly 4,000 American service men and women have died for no good reason in Iraq since our wrongheaded and distinctly criminal invasion in 2003 (not to mention a million Iraqis). How hard must it be to face the fact that your loved one didn’t die to protect the world from anything, that they died for no noble purpose, not to preserve freedom or democracy, not for any righteous cause – but for nothing - nothing worth dying for at any rate? How hard must that be?

They died for the sole purpose of making already wealthy men even wealthier. It is evil. It is pure evil.

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The Democrats are not going to be our salvation. I wish that weren’t true - but it is. It is strictly up to us. Put your faith in the American people – they, we, are our last and only hope. We must stand up to the monsters who have done this to our country, and we must take it back from them. We are the only true owners of this nation. It’s time to act up America.


Soldiers are taught that when caught in a deadly ambush with nowhere to run or hide, you must charge the ambush. It is a case of the best defense being a good offense. We need to rise up, not stand down. We need to resist the fascism. We need to charge the ambush.

Our choices have come down to two: we can knuckle under, or we can stand up. And EVERYTHING depends on our standing up.

like i said the other day, there is only one answer to our desperate national crisis, and it will only be found by looking in the mirror...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/11/203124/883/902/435393
via:
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2008/01/opols-back-and-hes-cranked.html

[thunder rising]

1. Right? Which way are we going?

[grasswire]

2. Is this March 19 demonstration organized by ANSWER?

Until demonstrators separate themselves from other causes, they will not be taken seriously. That's just the way it is.