See the code pink women speaking truth to power.

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Lugar doesn't seem to like it much.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/10/8722/83021

Please read and recommend the diary. It's important for these people who are fasting to end the war to get support.

[OzarkDem]

1. Code Pink is doing a fantastic job

This is exactly what needs to be done - talking face to face with our leaders about getting out of Iraq.

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2. they are! I hope people see the thread. If not, it's posted here too:

http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2006/07/_tobey_and_sen.html#comments

[Peace Patriot]

3. I am upset that Sen. Christopher Dodd can get his picture taken with

the fasters and score points with the Left (the majority), saying things like Iraq is "a mess" and, "oh, yeah, bring the troops home" (uh-huh, fingers crossed behind his back), when this is the man, along with Tom Delay and Bob Ney, MOST RESPONSIBLE for why the troops are NOT COMING HOME.

Dodd, Delay and Ney engineered the Bushite corporate takeover of our election system, with a $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle (the so-called "Help America Vote Act") that failed to require a paper trail, failed to ban TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code in the new electronic voting systems, failed to control lavish lobbying and "revolving door" employment, and permitted secret industry "testing" of the machines. The result was the complete corruption of our election system, from one end of the country to the other, during the 2002-2004 period. The corporate fascists can now freely rig all of our elections forever more. One hacker, a couple of minutes, leaving no trace--that's all it takes--and millions of votes can be stolen, switched or 'disappeared.'

Numerous technical experts and other investigators--from the GAO to Common Cause--have now cried foul on these machines. They are EXTREMELY hackable and insecure. And no one--not even our secretaries of state--are permitted to review the secret code that runs the vote tabulation.

This system is made to order for fraud. And many, including, me are convinced that fraud occurred in 2004, as well as in all-electronic (s)elections in 2002. I believe that what occurred in 2004 was a fascist coup. I think that both the President and Congress were illegitimately elected by these machines, and not by us. And, quite frankly, you only have to look at what they've done--and what they haven't done--to know that.

I know that fasters are not political. Fasting is an all-consuming spiritual endeavor. And it is in fact intended to TRANSCEND politics and reach people in a different and deeper way. So I cannot blame them for meeting with any of the enemies of democracy, including Dodd. Maybe it will change him. Who knows? But his hypocrisy is upsetting. And his guilt for all the deaths in Iraq at least since 2004 is even more upsetting. He kept these people in power. The harm to those who have died, and to the tortured, and to our country has been enormous, and, now, we have even been denied the means of changing our country's course. This man helped kill our democracy. And there he smiles and looks pious with the peace protesters.

[rox63]

4. Go on over and support these brave people!

K&R! :kick:

[goclark]

5. Excellent! Thanks for posting~ kick

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6. thanks!

[EFerrari]

7. Kickeroo

:kick:

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8. the thread at Kos is sinking but at least people can still see it.

[EFerrari]

9. I can't navigate KOS. But I'm glad you and bigtree are posting

here.

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10. kos is confusing. I miss 99.9% of the diaries there.

And there's no way to kick them up like you can here.

[EFerrari]

11. It's annoying. I just stopped bothering after a while. And DU

is much more dynamic -- especially since they put up the journal feature!

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12. Du is a little easier to navigate

And I love the cute icons.