It’s not enough to boot some out of office. Don’t expect the Muslims to sit on “good will” given the track record.

And those pompous beltway bastards with their communications credentials are always going on about protecting our children.

Brenda…Please look again for the photo. It is there, honest.

corylus…You are right. These ARE our children. I share your frustration. The idea that being usa’ers gives a special entitlement is currently being encouraged in so many ways. The usa courts have denied legal and human rights to the prisoners being held in Gitmo and in the secret prisons all around the world. The idea that “others” are not equal under the law is very disturbing. In many ways we are all “others”. The attitude of the majority in this country toward immigrants is a perfect example a pathological national superiority complex. I do not blame the government. It is a matter of individual responsibility. Any individual who believes that he should have special rights because of where his mother was when he was born, needs to rethink his position. Geographical prejudice is no more acceptable than racial, ethnic, economic, or religious prejudice.

I recently referred well over one hundred friends to the Afterdowningstreet.org website to sign the petition to the U. S. military asking the armed forces to refuse to attack Iran; I consider most of my friends to be well educated and somewhat liberal (as worthless and misleading as that categorization is). Regardless of what anyone thinks about the effectiveness of such a petition, the simple act of signing in support I consider to be the least a person can do to register a voice against the insanity. Yet only 2 of my friends have signed on over a week’s time (and perhaps independently of my correspondence to them). Either I’ve become a very poor judge of character and vastly overestimated the humanity of my friends, or they, like so many others, are afraid, misinformed, and distracted, and we are well on our way to a nation that by scale will end up being much worse for the rest of the world than was Nazi Germany. I think, unfortunately, that most people have been blinded and psychologically co-opted by the system that enslaves them, and cannot see outside their comfortable life boxes to take meaningful action. And for the life of me, as someone who’s spent decades trying to find a path to effective political action, I’m not sure I can blame anyone — including myself — for sticking one’s head back in the ground. Perhaps I need to refer them to these photos with the simple message that “this is your child.”

“We are sorry that this unfortunate incident occurred. It was not our intent but we must remain ever vigilant in the ‘War on Terror ™. We mustn’t let our guard down as we find an alternative to oil sine that is the main reason why we are at war and even Alan Greenspan admits that. And since Greenspan was FED chairman for 20 years he has enormous credibility.

Thus we need a plan to use alternative energy such as biofuels so that the starving people of Latin America can growing foodstuff that will be consumed as in our quaint hybrids cars and help expand the economy creating new jobs for everyone. Also we must not overlook the threat of peek oil with oil rapidly approaching $100.00/barrel. Nevermide the fact that I voted to give our President the unconstitutional authorization to go to war. It was due to the fact that I didn’t have all the information at the time. And besides, Saddam threw out the inspectors and was not forthcoming about his weapon cache. Regardless, I don’t believe we should impeach the President because that will only make swing voters not like us and we don’t want to lose the red state white voters.

Finally, cannot and must not abandon the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East who are surrounded by fierce enemies and support their apartheid … er … security ‘fence’. blah blah blah”

Thanks if you can help. I’ve been working in peace activism since Jan ‘03 and am profoundly frustrated with our failure to stop the carnage.

I told him once that the best thing he could do was to resign his job in protest– I also asked him once if Pelosi was being blackmailed in some way (he refused to answer that question).

It is hard for me to fathom how intelligent people like Dan Bernal still rationalize our indefensible wars.

I can only conclude with Nader, that they fear the nitroglycerine in the White House more than doing what is right and necessary.

Perhaps it is the tragedy of the human condition that we all, best of us included, fail in so many ways. At the same time, our condition can occasionally rise to confront and vanquish our worse demons. To not attempt to do so is to to completely fail our purpose for being here.

A real killer.