Tuesday, November 6, 2007

5 more soldiers dead. What will you do?

I don't even know where to begin this post. How can we possibly still be debating the Iraq war? Every poll of US citizens shows an overwhelming majority of us want our soldiers out of there now. Yet here's the disconnect: where are the massive protests of the 1960's against the Vietnam War? Where is the call for action from those who are polled?

The American people seem to me to feel defeated in our own home. The saber-rattling and fear-mongering of the Bush Administration has gotten to us. Sure, we could call our senators, but what's the point ...

People! The point is this:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
This has been the deadliest year yet in Iraq, as we are soon approaching 4,000 dead. Most are killed not in battles against the enemy. Most are killed by roadside explosive devices set by local insurgents.

Call. Now.

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