Mr Bush -- "Why don't you admit once and for all that you lied?"

[understandinglife]

CRAWFORD, TX -- (OfficialWire) -- 08/26/05 -- I write to you in order to call your attention to the current situation in our nation. Because of the immoral and criminal war you initiated against the innocent people of Iraq, the nation is divided. We can all support efforts to vigorously resist international terrorism because no one has the right to take the life of another in the name of some "freedom." Through a series of lies you involved us in a war whose primary justifications -- WMDs, a connection between Iraq and the attacks of September 11, 2001, biological weapons -- you have been unable to sustain over the last thirty months during which more than 1800 brave and noble U.S. soldiers have died (among them my beloved son Jesús Alberto) and thousands of Iraqi children, women, and old men have been killed.

I remember well when in May of 2003 you stood on an aircraft carrier dressed as a pilot in our glorious air force. It was the end of major combat operations in Iraq and the banner read "Mission Accomplished." But just yesterday you had to repeat the same rhetoric and said "We will stay in Iraq until we accomplish the mission."

Didn't you tell us that the mission was accomplished? Then why are we still in Iraq? Why have more than 1800 soldiers of our glorious armed forces had to die?

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I ask you, Mr Bush, if you believe that this war is for "Our Freedom" and "Our Values" why don't you send your daughters to fight for freedom? Why don't your closest associates send their children to defend these values? Why are the children of immigrant families dying? Why are children from working families who are the least privileged dying? Why Mr Bush? Why?

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From Cindy Sheehan Is All Of Us: An Open Letter to Mr. Bush from Fernando Suarez del Solar. Fernando’s son, Jesus, died in Iraq on March 27th, 2003. En Español - To the President of the United States

by Fernando Suarez del Solar

More at the link:

http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20457

George, we all know you lied.

George, we all know you were told the facts and you still lied (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4457345)

George, walk down the road and sit with Cindy Sheehan and ask her to forgive you.

And then, George, return to the White House, accept the resignation of Rumsfeld, Rice, Bolton, Gonzales, Rove, Libby & Cheney, and then sign your own resignation and depart.

History will treat you badly no matter what you do, George.

We are going to be certain of that.

But, we will all grant you a nod of respect if you do two honorable things in your horrible life -- clean house and resign.


Peace.

[flyarm]

1. When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn.........

that song keeps going through my mind, over and over..

anyone who says this isn't Vietnam redux wasn't alive during Vietnam!

we sent the poorest to nam first.. , then the working class's kids, and until the draft people ignored what was going on, but then we had a media, and we had pictures every night on TV, many turned away until there was a draft..then Americans paid attention..

when will we ever learn, when will we everrrr learn??

we see *es polls tanking , and that is when most don't pay attention, during summer and vacations..i just wonder when September hits, will more Americans pay attention??

god i hope so...

how many have to die before Americans pay attention??

When will we ever learn..when will we ever learn??

fly

[understandinglife]

2. "anyone who says this isn't Vietnam redux wasn't alive during Vietnam!"

The only thing I add, since I was very much alive during Vietnam, is that the military industrial complex was in its infancy then.

It is now a big, ruthless, greed and murder machine being driven by corporate CEOs and their business associates whose offices are located in the White House, the Naval Observatory, State, Defense, ..., and the US Capitol.

We need to get out of Iraq.

We also need to go to Washington and clean house, big time.

And, then we need to make major adjustments to how we disburse tax dollars.


Peace.

[Lefty48197]

3. Real men admit their mistakes

Cyborg, zombie, megalomaniacs do not.

[understandinglife]

4. The truth looks like this, Fernando and Cindy, and I do not think ...

... it remotely resembles why your two brave sons joined the US Armed Forces and were willing to give their life for their country.

Ali al Saadi/AFP — Getty Images

In Baghdad, above, and several other Iraqi cities, supporters of Moktada al-Sadr protested against the draft constitution.

Marwan Ibrahim/AFP — Getty Images
In Kirkuk, more than 2,000 Sunnis chanted "No to federalism," a key dispute in the draft charter.

August 26, 2005

Sunnis Protest Charter as Leaders Struggle to Finalize It

By ROBERT F. WORTH

BAGHDAD, Iraq, August 26 - Thousands of Sunni Arabs rallied in central and northern Iraq today to protest the proposed Iraqi constitution.

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Sunni political leaders have refused to agree to the proposed document in large part because of a Shiite proposal to create a vast autonomous region in Iraq's oil-rich south. The Sunnis say that proposal - which would parallel the federal zone governed by the Kurds in northern Iraq - could cripple the Iraqi state, and allow neighboring Iran to dominate the Shiite south.

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Separately, thousands of followers of the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr marched in Baghdad and two southern cities, denouncing the American presence and lashing out at rival Shiite groups.

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On a day of relative calm in the rest of the country, insurgents continued their campaign of violence in the capital. Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi Army patrol in Doura, in southern Baghdad, killing one soldier, an Interior Ministry official said. Nearby, a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol close to the Doura oil refinery, killing one officer and wounding two, the official said.

Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/international/middleeast/26cnd-baghdad.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Bush, Cheney and all the members of that administration must be forced to resign and then be held accountable for their catastrophic deeds.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

5. CNN Poll: Would a new Iraqi constitution deter the insurgency?

At 1525 PDT, 26 August 2005 with more than 59,000 responding:

No = 86 %
Yes = 14 %

Link to the poll:
http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/19720.content.html

Reality, Georgie boy -- even folk responding to corporate non-news 'get it.'


Peace.