MNA, May 2 2005. A time to stop and reflect on ALL THE LIES, and THEN...

[understandinglife]

...to prepare for what we are going to do to STOP THE ATROCITIES.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN.............)

[troubleinwinter]

1. May 2, 2005, A National Day of Remembrance, Renewal, and Redemption

[EFerrari]

2. Where were you when you heard about Abu Graib?

I was sitting in the kitchen at my machine, working on a new comedy set. We needed a fresh fifteen minutes for a client.

I don't remember where I first saw the pictures. Sometimes, your mind just shuts down. Maybe my husband came to the table with the New Yorker in hand, Sy Hersh's story. Can't remember.

But, I do remember a day or so later, hearing Donald Rumsfeld say this on camera: "Oh, this is a tactic of terrorists. There are always COMPLAINTS."

And it got worse, after that.

We can do better than that:

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

4. Early morning, checking email, a friend had sent me the Sy Hersh link....

....and all I could think was 'whatever we know now, if we ever know the truth, the extent of the atrocities are going to be even worse.'

We know a bit more now, and it is way worse.

We still don't know the truth about the extent of the atrocities, but we do know beyond any reasonable doubt that America has participated in a vastly illegal act against humanity since 19 March 2003.

For those who haven't read it:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us (a day to THINK ABOUT IT.....)

[fooj]

3. A day for thoughtful reflection...

"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."-J.F.K.


:patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

Peace.
Nominate and Kick!:kick:

[EFerrari]

5. kick and get 'er done

[EFerrari]

6. Where were you when you heard about (for Marla)

The Florida recount, the Brooks Bros. Riot, the Supreme Court selection, that horrible moment in Congress when no one stood up with the Black Caucus?

Where were you when you heard about Enron? About Kenny Boy and how George used Lay's private plane for his campaign?

Where were you on 9/11? And on all the days after that, when we were all grieving, and when Mr. Bush declared his own jihad in our National Cathedral?

Were you in California the summer of rolling brown outs, of awful price hikes, of hospitals and schools shutting down?

Where were you when you heard about Colin Powell giving his speech at the U.N. Shaking vials of powder (powdered sugar?) and pointed to forged documents and elaborately fictional graphics of illusory mobile weapons labs? (Where were we when the media was attacking Scott Ritter?, Annan, Blix -- all the ones who tried to speak out against the lies?).

Jessica Lynch spoke up, too. Joe Wilson, Richard Clarke, Sibel Edmonds, so many people spoke up and haven't stopped.

Let's not get in the way of these voices. Let's be the conduit for truth. We can start here: www.missionnotaccomplished.us


"Nobody said that it would be easy."
-- Leslie Marmon Silk, Ceremony

[BamaBecky]

7. It boggles my mind that Americans, for the most part, can not see

the lies, deceptions, the deceit, the stealing, the killing, the brazen destruction of this country! It truly slays me. I have tried so hard to break through the denial of friends and family.....and what do I get for it? THEY think I'm CRAZY. That's ok, cause I think they are ALL SUFFERING FROM ABJECT STUPIDITY.

:loveya: :hi:

[understandinglife]

8. "This Is Our Guernica"

This is our Guernica

Ruined, cordoned Falluja is emerging as the decade's monument to brutality

Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail
Wednesday April 27, 2005
The Guardian

Robert Zoellick is the archetypal US government insider, a man with a brilliant technical mind but zero experience of any coalface or war front. Sliding effortlessly between ivy league academia, the US treasury and corporate boardrooms (including an advisory post with the scandalous Enron), his latest position is the number-two slot at the state department.

<snip>

At least Zoellick went to see. He gave no hint of the impression that the trip left him with, but is too smart not to have understood something of the reality. The lesson ought not to be lost on Blair and Straw. Every time the prime minister claims it is time to "move on" from the issue of the war's legality and rejoice at Iraq's transformation since Saddam Hussein was toppled, the answer must be: "Remember Falluja." When the foreign secretary next visits Iraq, he should put on a flak jacket and tour the city that Britain had a share in destroying.

The government keeps hoping Iraq will go away as an election issue. It stubbornly refuses to do so. Voters are not only angry that the war was illegal, illegitimate and unnecessary. The treatment inflicted on Iraqis since the invasion by the US and Britain is equally important.

In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction. In the 1990s Grozny was cruelly flattened by the Russians; it still lies in ruins. This decade's unforgettable monument to brutality and overkill is Falluja, a text-book case of how not to handle an insurgency, and a reminder that unpopular occupations will always degenerate into desperation and atrocity.

(more at link): http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1471169,00.html

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (think about it)

[EFerrari]

9. kick!

:kick:

[understandinglife]

10. "Iraq insurgents rev up attacks." Guess we know how they plan to celebrate

-- May 2 2005.

$hrub seems to have gotten his wish when he told the Iraqi's to 'bring it on.'

Iraq insurgents rev up attacks

By John J. Lumpkin

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After a postelection respite, the pace of insurgent attacks in Iraq has increased in recent weeks to approach last year's levels, Pentagon officials said yesterday.

"Where they are right now is where they were almost a year ago, and it's nowhere near the peak," said Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a Pentagon news conference.

That's about 400 attacks a week of all kinds: bombings, shootings, rocket and mortar attacks, Pentagon officials said. About half cause significant damage or injure or kill someone.

As of Monday, at least 1,569 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. (more at the link):

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002254423_iraq27.html

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (and when will we ever know how many innocent Iraqi's have been slaughtered)

[troubleinwinter]

11. KICKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

[Im with Rosey]

12. How can we ever forgive

the lies that have cost the mothers, fathers, wives, children of 1569? How can any of these horrible people look themselves in the mirror and not have the images of those that died etched into their eyes? How can we hear that the search for WMD has been completed to realize there were never any WMD and not know blood is on everyone's hands. This to me is the greatest loss of our collective humanity and conscience.

[savannahana]

13. MNA: reflection & remembrance, on 2 May 2005 and "...from some future day"

<< A poet wrote these compelling words: "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind."

We the People must understand that we are in the saddle, and we are ready to ride. We are ready for an end to wars and lies and fear. >>

http://www.missionnotaccomplished.us




Blacksmith


What is the past
but a lame horse
who makes her way home
to the forge of our hearts?

Have we barred the gate, ignoring her?
Do we chase her away from our door, evening and morning?

Whatever we have tamed
in the service of this world
returns, in time, bearing
the wounds of our blessings, the wildness
of our own true names.

She will wait where she stands and grieve our spirits
until we attend her rightly,
with all our courage, skill, and sorrow,
mastery's craft, and wisdom's art.

Who prepared her for this journey?
Whom has she served along the way?

"If not you, Blacksmith, does it matter?"

Our ghost mounts now, to ride her tomorrow
as she limps to meet us, from some future day.


(18 May 1996)

[merh]

16. Hi savannahana

:hi:


:kick:

[frictionlessO]

14. Glad a new thread got started thank UL!

I plan on getting baked by a big secluded waterfall a short hike from our house and just crying and skipping stones...

[understandinglife]

15. Thought it best as to make it easier for folk on dial-up! Thank you.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN..........)

[understandinglife]

17. C-span2, Book TV, 1030am EDT, 9/11 Truth..........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3560601&mesg_id=3560601


www.missionnotaccomplished.us (a day to reflect on what you are going to do to stop the atrocities being committed by the pretenders in the WH)

[understandinglife]

18. Spend the day thinking about Kent State. Prepare for the 35th ...

...anniversary (May 4th). And, prepare yourself for all YOU are going to do to remove, peacefully, Bu$h and his fristian neoconster buddies from office.

Stop the atrocities, Be The B$h Opposition.



www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN.............)

[savannahana]

19. back to the top, for early evening

May 2nd is a Monday (Moon-day)

A good day to remember who we are, inwardly.

A good day to listen to our feelings, and respond to what they are telling us about

All we have forgotten, caught up in the world's mad whirlwind

All that waits for us, the abundance, inside ourselves.

:hi:

[understandinglife]

20. Thank you savannahana and, again, welcome to DU!

www.missionnotaccomplished.us (stop, think, prepare for what you will do to bring the evil Bu$h regime to an end, peacefully and soon)

[understandinglife]

21. End the atrocities; end the lies........

.........www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN.........)

[savannahana]

22. for the mid-day folks on EDT

:hi:

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[understandinglife]

23. MNA, May 2 2005 -- The Day WE BEGIN....

....to be unrelenting in holding Bu$h and his fristian neconster buddies accountable for all their atrocities and lies.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us (May 2 2005 - IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING...)

[savannahana]

24. for the night-owls and the dreamers

:hi: :kick:

[EFerrari]

25. May 2, Mission NOT Accomplished

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

"Nobody said it would be easy." Leslie Marmon Silko