Thank you, Rev. Yearwood. Thank you, Code Pink. Thank you, Ray McGovern. Thank you, Adam Kokesh.

[BurtWorm]

Thank you to all the brave and honorable Americans actively resisting this insane war and the bullshit about the war.

Thank you on behalf of Americans who need your example to spur us to action. Thank you on behalf of Americans who are losing hope in the effectiveness of action.

PS: Is it just me or does it feel like things are coming to a head?

[Maat]

1. Amen (n/t)!

[Voltaire]

2. I HOPE things are coming to a head

couldn't be soon enough for ME!

[EFerrari]

3. I hope there's a head up there because that implies a brain.

We keep moving.

[BurtWorm]

5. I feel like I'm getting angrier all of a sudden.

For the longest time I was feeling hopeless. Now I just want to scream at every lying piece-of-shit political insider I see. And almost all of them look like lying pieces of shit to me.

[EFerrari]

6. I know. Me, too. And it doesn't sit well in this small town.

Maybe we can PM each other to avoid head explosions.

[BurtWorm]

7. I don't know how anyone can see what's going on and not be enraged

(or depressed beyond help).

Of course denial is another option...

[bdamomma]

9. me three, after yesterday's committee meetings with bush's

morans petreaus and crocker, they are just doing the nasty deeds of cheney and bush, may they all rot in hell.

[EFerrari]

13. Imho, the spin will get really bad this week. They're peaking

or something.

[BurtWorm]

15. The spin certainly is bad this week!

I hope they're peaking. I hope all their hopes go flat when it's over.

[w8liftinglady]

4. I thank all of them ...plus ..my local editor

I know these brave patriots are all worthy of praise,but when a Repub speaks out,in print,in a repub area....it is really courageous,imho.these are the people we need to bring to our side
http://thedailylight.com/articles/2007/09/11/dailylight/opinion/editorials/column1.txt
It was a day that forever changed a nation. In less than 90 minutes, a terrorist organization carried out a series of attacks that ultimately took the lives of 2,974 Americans as committed by 19 terror cell operatives on U.S. soil.

As we watched the events unfold on our televisions and listened to news reports on the radio, for all of us, Sept. 11, 2001, forever ceased being a day on the calendar.

Throughout the day, national and international intelligence agencies pointed to al Qaeda and its founder Osama bin Laden as the main suspect of the attacks. Though the 9/11 Commission concluded in its 2004 report the attacks were conceived and implemented by al Qaeda, bin Laden has never been formally indicted — though the United States has posted a $50 million bounty for his capture, dead or alive.

In the six years post 9/11:


The United States has successfully toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq based primarily on reports the despot was building a cache of weapons of mass destruction. In more than five years since the War in Iraq began, more than 3,700 U.S. service members have been killed as the United States continues its effort to establish democracy in the Middle Eastern nation where we once aided in Saddam’s rise to power. While no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, our military continues to stand in harm’s way in Iraq, while the reconstruction effort is being led, in large part, by defense contractors being paid billions by the federal government. According to a recent McClatchy Newspapers report, at least one defense contractor admitted to paying Iraqi insurgents (the bad guys attacking U.S. troops) not to attack the firm’s projects. Question to the president: Instead of giving billions to defense contractors, why not give everyone in the military a pay raise and the equipment they need and let the military lead the war?


In a measure meant to protect U.S. citizens and make us all feel safer, Congress approved the Patriot Act (and reauthorized its powers in 2006) which allows the government power to conduct warrantless searches and surveillance and to detain those suspected of terrorism and hold them without due process.


Despite much rhetoric in Washington and national public outcry to shore up our borders and tough talk on U.S. immigration policy, our borders remain porous with thousands of illegal immigrants streaming in daily and there is little will in Washington to enforce existing immigration laws, let alone pose viable reform.


bin Laden (the former militia leader trained and funded by the United States during the Afghan War with the Soviet Union), remains at large and continues recruiting, training and inciting fanatical Muslims to wage a holy war against the United States, Israel and basically everyone else who doesn’t think the way they do.

Six years post 9/11, are we safer?


We all would admit the government agencies have been successful in preventing further terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

Was it worth the loss of civil liberties taken away by the Patriot Act? That question will long be a matter of public debate. However, we hold that the basic tenets this great nation was founded upon were freedom and liberty. If security comes at the loss of a single liberty — whether self-imposed or at the hand of a foreign power — it is too much of a price to pay. For nearly a quarter of a millennia, Americans have continuously defended the principals of freedom at home and abroad — against enemies far greater than the one we now face. It seems sadly ironic we are now so willing to cede some of those liberties for a false sense of security.

Lastly, we can’t help but wonder why it is so difficult for the greatest nation in the history of the world, with all of its resources, to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. It seems if we could defeat fascist dictators and communism, impose and dethrone foreign despots in the name of imperialism all while feeding the world and engineering a way to put man on the moon, surely we could track down a 6-feet, 6-inch tall Saudi Arabian who leads the world’s most radical and highly organized terror network. While that may be an oversimplification, remember we did manage to find Saddam hiding in a spider hole in the Iraqi desert.

Six years post 9/11, we find no great victories to celebrate. There are only sad reminders on how much our nation and lives have changed at the acts orchestrated by a madman we can neither find nor defeat

[G_j]

8. K&R

[Coexist]

10. thank you Michael Ware for the bits of truth and reality you show us.

thank you Riverbend
thank you General Clark
thank you Jon Soltz

[LWolf]

11. Resistance: brave and principled.

Thanks to all who take a stand.

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. Sadly I have felt that way off and on for at least three years.

May I add my gratitude as well!

[Senator]

14. K&R&I(Impeach Now)

[Stephanie]

16. Thank you Keith Olberman, thank you Dennis Kucinich.

Thank you Cindy Sheehan

[BurtWorm]

17. Forgot that Cindy was also arrested this week.

Thank you, Cindy!

(And thank you Keith and Dennis. And Stephanie.)

[peacetheonlyway]

19. David Swanson

who wore his code pink princess crown in the senate hearing as well... we are big fans of Mr. David Swanson.

[BurtWorm]

20. I loved those women who were snarking at the capitol cops after they tackled Yearwood.

All I could do was say Amen!

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. Yes, David rocks

Another of our heroes.

[rucognizant]

31. Don't forget .........

Ray McGovern. He was arrsted for calling out " How about the swearing in". ( Betrayous didn't swear on the bible to tell the whole truth nothing but, )before his testimony while the were repairing the mic.

[peacetheonlyway]

33. Ray McGovern and my friend Gloria

got Rumsfeld fired.

I worship the man.

I wish he would tell us what the timeline is to nuclear armageddon in iran so we can storm our congress sheeple's offices.

[BurtWorm]

34. He's in my list for that reason.

Now there is a patriot!

:patriot:

[peacetheonlyway]

18. Sending Rev. Yearwood healing energy

and a huge thanks again, to an African American for pointing out the white supremicist bigots that run this country.

i'm so sick of white men running things, let the women and african american folk run things for a while...

watch our world evolve overnight with such wisdom in office.

Thanks to all the Code Pinkers who disrupted "asshole" Ike Skelton, and liar Patreus

[roguevalley]

21. I admire anyone who risks jail, etc to stand up against tyrany. I do

not admire those who detract from their efforts, as many did during the hearing yesterday and the code pink ladies. Its easy to sit and criticize people who put things on the line. These people are admirable and I salute them too. :)

[BurtWorm]

22. You said it!

:toast:

[goodhue]

23. Yes, Indeed

Thank You!

[Divine Discontent]

24. I admire and pray for them to my Savior, they are modern day HEROES among cowards! n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Thank you Tina Richards. Thank you Cindy Sheehan.

I sure hope things are coming to a head. And I hope America wakes up.

[ray of light]

27. Thank you Sibel Edmonds & Jesselyn Radack, Col. Wright, and more

[karendc]

28. Just back from the Code Pink house

here in DC, where the mood is good, as lots of people come by: kids who marched across the country, a singer who is performing at Saturday's march, many new folks, and some returning to the house after a summer at home.

Lots of food sharing and hugs. They got to see this thread and one of them said to tell you all that getting the messages out is critical.

Midge said she told one radio station that it is so important that dissent is on the record and that is why they get into hearings and make a bit of a ruckus.

I do what I do because I need to be able to look at my children and know I did what I could to make this horrific war stop.

The Code Pink women do the same.

Thanks for your thanks. It all helps.

[stillcool]

30. thank you...

for doing what you do...big :hug:

[BurtWorm]

32. Thank you for sharing htis with them, Karen!

I've admired them for a long time.

:patriot:

[MzNov]

29. and thanks MOVE.ON.ORG