We of sane minds want the wars over now.
We talk of a movement. Those of us too old to do as much as before, KNOW what a movement looks like. We know what it feels like. We remember. Many of us do not understand where the energy is for all the young people of today, especially the unemployed and kids not attending college.
Young people....if there were a draft...you would see things differently a lot differently than you do now. I am not advocating a draft. But the young people today do not understand IF they reintroduced the draft, then they would be off to war,,any war.
Take your pick and even the wars that have not started yet. No choice. Off to a land of death and destrution to make a few more corporations rich and you sick or dead.
I want you to think about what a movement looks like. If people really wanted the war to end, they would do what was done in the 60's. So why is it not being done?
Why are the old and young, not writing the media every single day saying NO MORE...
Enough !!!!!. Why has the American people sat down and crawled behind an X box, a computer, a television set, and not gone into organizing a Peace Movement. Not
just, We want the wars to end in their minds and hearts but not taken that passion to to the streets everyday.To the college campuses? Why are we allowing more veterans get back door drafted and redeployed over and over. Is it because we do not want to seem like we are
anarchists? Unpatriotic? Beause this troops volunteered..Well, they volunteered or at least the majority did so based on lies. Where is the passion and anger of the middle class
disappearing?
The anger of citizens united ruling? Where is the rage regarding the thousands found homeless or Corporations being taken over? The poor getting poorer or the rich getting richer? Are the death tolls not high enough..Well one death was one too many?
Where are the movers and shakers? Where are the protest songs? Where is the passion? Basially, I think most people do not want to hurt morale for the troops but wait, the troops want to come home as well. Just as they did in Vietnam. Has the media become so proficient that the shiny object is putting more and more apathy into the American people to just sit and do nothing. Oh we have tea partiers but all they want is less tax and basically I have not quite figured out what they want. Mostly a quest to destroy Obama.
I tell you true..We have more veterans coming home disabled than the VA and the organizations know what to do with and it is gonna get worse. We have 1 million veterans unemployed ! How many are homeless? Have we lost another generation of
people. We have created a mountain of debt in these wars...an economy that is geared to throwing more people in the streets, in the grave and legislators wanting to cut benefits for those old, now, Vietnam Veterans.
WAKE UP !!!!!!! We Vietnam/baby boomers can tell you how it's done but basically you
young people have to do it. We are getting in such a shape we cannot sustain our day to day living but this keeping us down and depressed is the best recruiting tool for the military out there. A job. The only thing America really produces..WAR.
Take a peak at what a movement against a war looks like and remember this is a discussion that needs to be had.
When is enough enough? How are you holding legislators responsible?
What letters are you writing?
Where are the war protest song writers?
Where are the people with signs organizing everyday all over America?
This is what it looks like but ultimately this has to be vigilant and done everyday with loss of partying and friends and yes division among family as well but ultimately bringing the troops home.
Here are some stats. This is reality.
http://antiwar.com/...
The Human Cost of Occupation
American Military Casualties in Iraq
Date Total In Combat
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4474 3529
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) (the list) 4335 3421
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3615 2896
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 246 125
Since Operation New Dawn: 46 35
American Wounded Official Estimated
Total Wounded: 33105 Over 100000
Latest Fatality July 18, 2011
U.S. Wounded
Daily DoD Casualty Release
320,000 Vets Have Brain Injuries
War Veteransâ Concussions Are Often Overlooked
18 Vet Suicides Per Day?
IF WE CANNOT GET THE WARS ENDED THEN TAX THEM !!!!1
WAR TAX NOW
Don't wait for some poltician or legislator to do this. It will only change if We the People speak up and speak out..Daily !!!!!
This is what a real movement looks like...