8 Comments so far

1. opeluboy March 20th, 2007 8:20 pm

   San Francisco Democrats Tell Pelosi To Vote Against Iraq War Funding.

   Too bad, AIPAC has already given her her marching orders.

   And by the way, just how many wars against Arabs/Muslims do you think Lantos, Boxer and Feinstein will avert?

   If you don’t want serial wars in the Middle East for the next 100 years, stop putting Zionists who don’t give a damn about anything but Israel in office where they can chair every major committee.

2. Coyotita March 21st, 2007 9:19 am

   Bottom line is we, the American public want our troops home now, not at the end of, or the beginning of, or sometime when. The timing set to the political clock is torture for the troops, their families, and the American psych. Everyday the war continues is one day too long.

3. Coyotita March 21st, 2007 9:21 am

   . . . and as always we overlook the suffering of those in whose streets the war is extracting unfathomable and far-reaching misery.

4. Earthian March 21st, 2007 11:22 am

   Pelosi supports empire. She is a corporate militarist. And while Pelosi is compromising for political purposes resulting in more deaths, some Democrats are unwilling to do so and showing their opposition to empire, to preventative war policies and showing their progressive stripes. Of course Kucinich is one. His 12 point plan would bring troops home quickly. Another is John Lewis, representative from Georgia. Here is his speech from yesterday in opposition to the Pelosi compromise: (this is the language of a true progressive)

   >>The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis) is recognized for 5 minutes.

   Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise with deep concern that on this very day 4 years ago, our Nation inaugurated a conflict, an unnecessary war, a war of choice, not a necessity.

   [Page: H2642] GPO’s PDF\

   The most comprehensive intelligence we have, the National Intelligence Estimate and the latest Pentagon report, tells us that Iraq had descended into a state of civil war. Over 3,000 Americans have died, and hundreds of thousands, some even say up to 1 million citizens of Iraq, have lost their lives in this unnecessary conflict.

   And while we are telling our veterans of this war, the elderly, the poor, and the sick that there is no room in the budget for them, the American people have spent over $400 billion on a failed policy. We cannot do more of the same. Mr. Speaker, violence begets violence. It does not lead to peace.

   President John F. Kennedy once said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” My greatest fear is that the young people of Iraq and of the Middle East will never forget this war. My greatest fear is they will grow up hating our children and our children’s children for what we have done. Mr. Speaker, the Bible is right. Even a great nation can reap what it sows.

   Nothing troubles me more than to see the young faces of these soldiers who have been led to their death.

   [Time: 19:45]

   Some are only 18, 19, 21, 22, 23. It is painful; it is so painful to watch. Sometimes I feel like crying and crying out loud at what we are doing as a Nation and what this administration is doing in our name. Our children do not deserve to die as pawns in a civil war.

   They do not deserve to pay with their lives for the mistakes of this administration. They never had a chance.

   When I was their age, when I was 23 years old, I was leading the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, soon to speak in Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, but then we were involved in a nonviolent revolution to transform the soul of America, to create a beloved community.

   Forty years ago, I was there in New York City in Riverside Church when Martin Luther King, Jr., gave one of the most powerful speeches he ever made against the war in Vietnam. If he could speak today, he would say this Nation needs a revolution of values that exposes the truth that war does not work. If he could speak today, he would say that war is obsolete as a tool of our foreign policy.

   He would say there is nothing keeping us from changing our national priority so that the pursuit of peace can take precedence over the pursuit of war.

   He would say we must remove the causes of chaos, injustice, poverty and insecurity that are breeding grounds for terrorism. This is the way towards peace.

   As a Nation, can we hear the words of Gandhi, so simple, so true, that it is either nonviolence or nonexistence? Can we hear the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., saying that we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish as fools?

   Tonight I must make it plain and clear that as a human being, as a citizen of the world, as a citizen of America, as a Member of Congress, as an individual committed to a world at peace with itself, I will not and I cannot in good conscience vote for another dollar or another dime to support this war.>>

5. Lobo Gris March 21st, 2007 11:30 am

   Earthian March 21st, 2007 11:22 am

   Nice speech but I’m done with listening to speeches. Show me voting records and legislation introduced.

   Too many lies and hidden agendas these days from Bill Clinton’s I’m for the middle class to Bush’s I’m not into nation building.

   Lobo Gris

6. Rebel Farmer March 21st, 2007 1:52 pm

   Not another red cent! Bring them home now! Spend the money for more war on the troops we have maimed! Spend the money on the Americans at home that are in need! NO MORE MONEY FOR WAR! Period!

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