[O29] Troops out NOW or "at some unspecified date in the future to be determined according to the whim of Congress"?

[Nate Peyman]

Agreed.  I think we place OUR DEMANDS on the table, and say it like we mean
it!!  Damn it!  We mean business.  George Bush is the guy who makes us all
think we could do a much better job than him ourselves.  Meanwhile, he's doing
a damn fine job of eating this country alive, while we're crucified with the
agony of this dawning reality...   

  There is a war on the poor people of this country.  There is a war of the
poor people in this country armed against the poor people of Iraq. Haiti.
Venezuela. Columbia. Palestine. etc...

  We are the people of the United States of America.  We have demands, and the
explicit right to state our demands.  We want the TROOPS HOME NOW!  The people
have compromised far too much already to let our words fall prey to hypnotized
rhetorical suggestions of when it would be feasible to get the troops home. 
Our words matter.  "Now" is a meaningful word.  Let's use it! 

  We have to speak our minds collectively. The differences of steering that
occur within the group are really just our collective conscious swerving around
pot holes.  We're all watching out for eachother, and we just need a group hug
to heal our minds, kind of thing, you know?  Let's demonstrate PEACE!!

  Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't get famous giving speaches called, "I have a
complaint."  The point is we're going to generate power to the sentiment of
this war is absolutely intolerable, and our more moderate allies will learn
something.  Maybe that having a spine is a good thing. 

  Our government is in trouble, because eventually someone has to take
responsibility for what's going on.  Let's just learn how to demonstrate
alternatives to closed-minded thinking, lifestyles, and politics.  Welcome to
the next movement. 
 

--peace
 Nate--




617-899-8430
peacenate at yahoo.com


--- ATMRRM at aol.com wrote:

> 
> I agree with Keith and John Harris.
> 
> I don't know what antiwar movement Gary's referring to, but for 3-4 years I 
> marched and worked in a mass antiwar movement against the Vietnam War with
> the 
> call for OUT NOW!!   I still have my pins!!!
> 
> For us (O29 coalition), to take a position so that the antiwar movement can 
> be more palatable to the Democrats, is not only pathetic, it is  
> irresponsible 
> and repugnant. Why would the antiwar movement concede to a time table that 
> would result in the deaths of more Iraqi women and children as well as more
> US 
> troops?
> 
> LeBlanc writes: "It is up to us to turn the growing opposition to Bush into a
> 
> massive movement to set the date and bring the troops home now."
> 
> There's only one date that allows for us to bring the troops home now: NOW, 
> not later at a date to be determined by Congress.
> 
> To concede anything less than OUT NOW, sounds like "a little bit more of this
> 
> war is okay."   How many more months are okay?   How many more deaths 
> tolerable?    How much more fiscal havoc on our schools, elderly, veterans
> and poor 
> is reasonable collateral damage?   
> 
> Arlene TM
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