Reply #10: We can already see why the events planned for the 24th-26th must ...

[understandinglife]

... happen.

Many people too poor to evacuate from Houston and surrounding areas; those able to evacuate sitting on highways and side roads with little or no remaining fuel; and, fuel stations closing at an increasing rate; and, very difficult, if not impossible, for fuel trucks to get to the stations because of the congested highways and side roads.

We have a government that violated the Constitution and international law in the process of starting a war of aggression and maintaining an occupation of a sovereign Nation that posed on threat to us.

The, currently unaccounted and likely unaccountable, 100s of billions of tax revenue spent on Bush's illegal war in Iraq, could have been spent on improving our ability to respond to natural disasters and reducing our contribution to creating those disasters by funding the application, as well as further invention and development of green energy alternatives and conservation mechanisms.

We would have far fewer people in the world wanting to kill us because we would have been improving the quality of life on the planet for everyone - by lessening global warming - and, most importantly because we wouldn't have spent the past five years killing people and trying to steal their natural resources and control their fate.

Rita and Katrina make it absolutely clear why the demonstration on Saturday and the events on Sunday and Monday could not have been better timed -- because of Bush and Congress's un-Constitutional and illegal war on Iraq, our citizens have suffered, mortally, and are going to suffer even more.


Peace.