We each know what we must do. It cannot be more obvious.

understandinglife

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Sun Aug-21-05 12:54 AM
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We each know what we must do. It cannot be more obvious.

Edited on Sun Aug-21-05 12:57 AM by understandinglife

I read the following earlier this evening:

That little boy I was talking about... I forgot to mention... He died of starvation two days ago. I helped bury him, I was actually the only one doing it. I put a rock on top of the little mound, and wrote one word. The single word that all of us were waiting for:

'Freedom'

I feel like I'm trapped in Hell, like I'm stuck in a valley that I cannot get out of.

If death is the only freedom, then I hope that God gives it to me."

(The American soldier who wrote that was killed in Iraq this week.)

Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4411204

And, within a few minutes, I read this:

I think about Iraq every day even though I've been home 6 months. And I still cannot figure out why I was there or why americans died over there. I'm all for war, but only "right" wars. I was decorated for valor and congratulated by Colonels, and it's all hollow because it is for nothing. That's why I'm against the war in Iraq.

I can definitely say nothing in suburban America ever EVER prepared me for anything I saw over there. Besides the actual combat, the simple fact that instead of just watching one of those UNICEF commercials with the babies with flies all over them, I was actually in one.

I can't tell you how dirty and malnourished the small children were. Begging for food and eating whatever we threw out of our MRE's. I'll never forget this girl probably like 8 years old came up to me with probably a 2 month old asking me to help the baby because it had some sort of nasty looking scabby rash. I told here I didn't have anything. It's not like I was a medic or like we even had one with us, but she was so insistent and so upset, and the baby was just motionless, flies all over her face. ....

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And you never hear about how many Iraqi civilians are killed just because they work for Americans and are trying to provide for their families. We had a restaurant on our FOB run by haji's .... so after about 2 minutes of busting this guy a little he gets red and says, "I will tell you why we have no fries, man that delivers fries was killed because he works with americans". When he said that it just floored us. We couldn't imagine some one who delivers french fries would be killed just because he delivers food to a guy that works for americans.

Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4411562

And, it became clearer than ever before what we must do.

Bring the Nation to a halt. NOW.

Force Bush and Cheney to resign. NOW.

Be unrelenting in bringing Bush, Cheney and all their fellow neoconster war criminals to justice. NOW.

No 'business as usual' until we stop these mass murdering sociopaths from ruining America and humanity.

No waiting until 2006 or 2008 because these mega-criminal nutjobs are likely to have preemptively and illegally attacked Iran and Syria and who knows what other country before we get to the end of 2005.

They must be stopped, NOW.

And, the only way that happens is for every single one of us to become a 'Cindy Sheehan.'

Except, our demand is not to meet with Bush, it is to expel him and his co-criminals and take them to trial.

As Cindy Sheehan correctly notes -- they work for us. Let's act accordingly.

It is time We The People ... FIRE THEM AND RENDER THEM TO JUSTICE. NOW.

Peace.