The Good News Flower Hour #22 (Donald Rumsfeld's Holy War Art)

[teach1st]

Run time: 01:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qumwmkg7yOk   Posted on YouTube: May 22, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 24, 2009 By DU Member: teach1st Views on DU: 1345

 

[earcandle]

1. wow.

[Liberal_Christian]

2. wow. right on. was that code pink?

[Just-plain-Kathy]

3. I love Code Pink, many here think they're crazy, I admire their guts. ..n/t

:kick:

[Liberal_Christian]

9. I was one of those people :-( :-(

Whenever anyone experiences progress first hand and doesn't understand it, or if it offends their previous conceptions they've grown complacent with, they rush to anger and intolerance.

I didn't like how they criticized some of Obama's advisor's on the bailout because I believed they were hindering what little progress Obama was going to make. The truth is, he's just another Clinton, a Republican in democratic clothing, one who caters to big business before the American people. The bill to rein in the credit card companies is bull shit (it doesn't even address interest rates), TARP is still unregulated, there's been NO new legislation reinstating Glass-Steagal.

All this administration is doing is pumping blood into someone who is critically injured while letting the wounds go unchecked to continue to bleed.

[Wednesdays]

4. So she says "war criminal!" and gets hauled off...for what?

If she was applauding him (un-sarcastically) and shouting how much of a hero he is, the police would never have even touched her.

[liquid diamond]

5. Lunatic. There are better ways to protest the war than making

yourself look like an ass.

[RetroLounge]

6. Like you just did...

:eyes:

RL

[unapatriciated]

7. Please share because nothing seems to have worked so far.

even though it took longer than we wanted it was demonstrations and protesting much like what code pink is doing that ended the Vietnam "Conflict".
He is a war criminal and we are not shouting it loud or often enough.

[liquid diamond]

12. Hi unapatriciated.

One of the main reasons I voted for Obama is that he promised a quick end to the Iraq war. At one point he said he would bring the troops home within 6 months. I was disappointed to hear that we’ll be over there until 2011. Obama disagreed with the war before we went over there, but he is a realist about the situation.
To be honest I don’t think that any protests at this time are going to bring an end to the Iraq war. However, I believe it is better to hold organized and CIVIL protests. I thought the “die-ins” were creative. Reminding people of the number of troops that have died in this pointless war is another way to drive our point home.
I think the psycho in the video link just made herself look like a child. Calling your adversaries names and yelling at them is immature, and it’s hard to take such people seriously. I agree with code-pinks ultimate goal, but I think their approach is too extreme. For example, I remember one woman approaching Condoleeza Rice with bloody hands screaming war criminal. What did that solve?
Thanks for your sincere response. I’ll see you around. :hi:

[Liberal_Christian]

13. "Nice women never made history" -Susan B. Anthony

You said, "Reminding people of the number of troops that have died in this pointless war is another way to drive our point home".

That's what she was doing by yelling "childishly" at a war criminal.

"Reminding people of the number of troops that have died in this pointless war is another way to drive our point home"

That's what one woman who approached Condoleeza Rice with bloody hands was doing.

One man's civil protest is another man's "childishness" and "extremism".

When I saw the this and other woman with "bloody" hands I was forced to speculate the perceptions other than the ones I had become complacent with, and you know what? There are millions just like me. THAT'S what is solved :-)

[ro1942]

8. code pink

i love code pink they have a lot of courage, if half of us did what they do we could stop this corp. run gov.

[Liberal_Christian]

10. "make yourself look like an ass"????

Gee, you must have thought Gandhi was a real dip-shit. Conservativeunderground.com is down the hall.

[DeSwiss]

11. K&R!

- "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." - Isaiah 2-4