I am NOT giving up on us...

[Mythsaje]

Yeah, I know it looks bleak. But forgive me if I've had enough of the prophets of doom who shriek that it's all about to end, that this grand experiment has reached its end. My answer is, and will be until the last minute, "not if we don't allow it."

I don't have faith in any higher power. I have faith in us, despite all the terrible things that have been done by human beings throughout history. We have also done some remarkably great things, and the arguments surrounding the value of human life grow louder and more strident by the day.

Sure, we're embroiled in a war we can't seem to escape, and our "leaders" seem just as stuck as our troops, but WE are not silent, nor are we standing still with our hands pinned behind our backs. We can speak, we can write, we can spread the message. And that's what we're doing.

They couldn't ignore those of us who made it to D.C. yesterday, and that's great. Every little bit counts. They can SAY that we're harming the troop morale, but we know that their morale can't be doing so well while guarding Halliburton convoys and seeing mercenaries earning many times the amount of money they're receiving.

Our soldiers may have been indocrinated, but they're not stupid. Eventually everything they know now is going to be laid out before the American people, and there WILL be a price exacted for this crap. At this point it's all about timing. If the whole story unfolds as the 2008 Presidential race heats up, the pro-war (or, at least, not ANTI-War) candidates are going to be stuck under the microscope and have to come up with some excuse for not standing up for the truth.

Do I think we're in trouble? Hell, yeah. But I've thought that for years. But I don't think any of it's irreversible.

All we have to do is keep our chin up, keep moving forward, and simply plow over those obstacles in our way. Fuck the neo-cons, fuck the ignorant conservatives, and fuck the willfully ignorant. This isn't about them. It's about the legacy we're leaving our children and grandchildren.

A friend of mine used to like it when the Repugnicans got cocky, because, as he said, every time they did, more people had their eyes opened. We're rolling up on a point where the sleeping giant is stirring in its slumber, and those who'd prefer it remain sleeping are regretting leaping around beating their chests like a bunch of gorillas.

Either we will fall completely, or we'll watch a resurrection of everything that America was supposed to be and wasn't.

I'm betting on the latter.

It's about time.

[Anita Garcia]

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