Read about Germany’s loss of democracy. Notice how closely it follows that of America. Very frightening and true.
I very much dislike how CNN and other media run headlines like “Pro-U.S., antiwar demonstrators march“. Antiwar protestors are very patriotic in most cases, and oppose only an unjust war and an undemocratic leader. They support the troops and want them returned home without innocent blood on their hands or their own on the ground.
Arabs are widely angry over these attacks, it seems. The promised greater instability in the region appears to have started.
Amr Moussa, the head of the 22-member Arab League, said “no Arab with any remnant of conscience can tolerate” the bombing of Baghdad, once the proud capital of the Islamic world.
“The bombing and violence we’re seeing on satellite TV should stir the ire of every Arab who sees it,” said the secretary-general, who has warned a war against Iraq could “open the gates of hell” in the Middle East.
Meanwhile in the United States, Veterans Against Iraq War, who launched their three-day “Operation Dire Distress” with a conference in Washington on Saturday, were planning a major demonstration in the capital on Sunday.
“While others pontificate and theorise about war, veterans know about its realities,” the group said in a statement.
“The present administration is led by men and women who chose not to go into the military and today have little understanding of war and no comprehension of its consequences,” it said.
Yes, people who have faced real conflict know and oppose the evils of war.
Most Canadians Back Staying Out of Iraq War-Poll
“We have supported the Americans in military action before but in this one we don’t like the motives nor trust the administration of the United States.”
This is a potent political cartoon showing one of the children harmed by “Shock and Awe”.
In the cab on my way home last night, the radio was tuned to the news station. They announced that the “coalition forces” had begun to close in on Tikrit. Shortly after they said this, I noticed it seemed like the cabbie was crying, so I asked if he was ok. He WAS in fact crying and he said “No, I am very sad. I am from Tikrit, I have family there. This is just so wrong. So so wrong.”
I don’t understand how people can support a war like this.
LJ post here.
A piece of prose displaying the hypocracy of the American government’s position
I have certainly not given up my stance of opposition to this war and Evil Dictator Bush. So much is at stake here, so many lives. I hope this war can be stopped and both sides saved from the many deaths.
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You know, I have so many thoughts running through my head right now. Mostly about war. Being a current independant-study student in U.S. history and future history major/minor possibilities and links to the past are always culminating in my mind. It troubles me so much that I can’t do much to help something. I don’t know if it’s my whole aura of teenage “I know I’m right” kinda thing or what, but I believe I could have dealt with this issue a whole lot better with patience and diplomacy. It’s just painful to realize that millions of peoples’ nights are sleepless, and their dreams riddled and infected with worries of the future of their loved ones and life.
I understand. I had a very keen interest in history during high school. here I had a very objective teacher who presented the course I last took, Global History, with a very non-baised approach of presenting us with facts and various interpretations of events and letting us come up with our own vision of it, rather than forcing us to just memorize what others thing. After learning of the cold war and the preceding world wars it was obvious to me how so many mistakes are being repeated from the beginning of all this.
Yeah, when you know someone who’s family is in danger because of this it really hits home a lot more.
I’m going to borrow that cab story and post it in my journal as well… more people should see that.
sure, go ahead