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Thread #56665   Message #890195
Posted By: GUEST
14-Feb-03 - 07:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who's marching on February 15th?
Subject: RE: BS: Who's marching on February 15th?
Actually, Bobert has a point about people who support the war coming into threads and pissing on the parade.

He also has a point about people who support the war, for whatever reasons, being incapable of appreciating what we hope will be 10 million people, around the globe, personally coming out and taking a stand against US/British military aggression, and using militarism as the solution to every problem between nations.

At some point, everyone needs to recognize that there isn't a compromise position, a "let's agree to disagree" about killing people, about unjust wars, and supporting militarism. Bobert is the only one honest enough to admit that, and I find it refreshing.

Bobert, dude, sorry you can't find your way into the millions of us in body tomorrow, but we'll at least know you are there in spirit.

And Norton1, I do hope your family is safe. I hope my family and friends already in the Gulf, or on their way, will be safe. And I hope the anti-war activists acting as human shields for the Iraqis will be safe. And I hope the Iraqis will be safe from our children, too. I pray that the pressure of these growing protests--and they are now growing by the hundreds of thousands with each organized protest--in conjunction with the position of many of the world's governments, and the UN, can either successfully avert this war through our opposition to this US administration, or manage to isolate this administration to the point where the American people will throw the bums out on their ears in November 2004 so we can get down to the work of TRULY healing our nation from the traumas caused by 9/11. Like throwing out the US Patriot Act as unconstitutional, and creating some safeguards to our civil liberties that will not allow despots like Bush/Cheney to get away with gutting our constitution in the interest of war in perpetuity, no matter who our enemies are, or how many times they strike.