Reply #24: "And only renewed, passionate dissent by the American people can end it." [View All]

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What I Didn't See in Iraq
by Jim McGovern

Jim McGovern is the Representative of the Third Congressional District of Massachusetts.

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What worries me almost as much as our misguided policy in Iraq is that so many of my colleagues and so many citizens have become resigned to the fact that the war will go on. Congress is not being inundated with letters and phone calls and faxes and e-mails and street protests demanding an end to our presence in Iraq. President Bush's re-election seems to have taken much of the energy out of the antiwar movement. My recent visit to Iraq only strengthened my belief that this war is wrong. And only renewed, passionate dissent by the American people can end it.

(more at the link):http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&s=mcgovern

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (a day of reflection and a day of sharing one's thoughts and deeds with all the others supporting MNA -- communicate as much as possible)