Americans Must Fight For Peace
Read this. Please. Everyone.
From a recent speech by U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio: “We did not authorize the administration to wage war anytime, anywhere, anyhow it pleases. We did not authorize war without end. We did not authorize a permanent war economy. We did not authorize an eye for an eye. Nor did we ask that the blood of innocent people, who perished on Sept. 11, be avenged with the blood of innocent villagers in Afghanistan.”

This is important. This needs to be remembered. Please, even as you are being besieged by ads for more war movies and the president is on the TV talking about “evil” as if god actually talks to him, please remember that killing innocents in a village half a world away will never bring back your lost loved ones.

And for the love of anything and *everything* stop being so f***ing suprised when you see another GI’s picture on the news and an anchor talking somberly about how he died. We are letting our govrnment send our brothers, husbands, sons, fathers, mothers, wives, and daughters out to die and more of them *will* die. That’s what happens in combat! It is not just the “other side” who dies, and you will not see the body bags coming home on TV like our parents saw 30 years ago. Government and the media have learned from the past. All we’ll see are heroic, ernest graduation pictures of young men and women cut down. A clean scrubbed face behind an anchor, with no messy corpse to make us question why in the *hell* this is happening.

An eye for an eye makes *nothing* better and it won’t bring back one damm person. I say this now and I’m going to keep saying it until somebody listens.