Barack Obama says that the Iranian government is "a threat to all of us"

Threat to us all??? What is that Iranian Navy going to land on the East Coast and invade? Imaginary threats to motivate the population. This is basic propaganda, what a joke.

What of Isreal, Pakistan, India. You don't hear a work of their nuclear arsenal. None of which have signed the NPT, and of which Iran has signed. Absolute hipocracy!

This is what I find, over and over again, so scary. Where do we turn to stop this? I keep wanting to turn to the Democrats; I voted for Nader in 2000 only to find such a choice vilified--to find people saying any Nader voter had "blood on their hands" for helping Bush get in; so I voted Democratic in '04. (and I'm in an uncontested red state, so my vote doesn't mean anything anyway). I'm not shocked, but I am outraged. More than that, as I said, it's just scary. Where do we turn to stop this?????

MoveOn has done some wonderful things for the peace movement -- from the mobilization of thousands of citizen lobbyists to oppose Congressional authorization of the war to periodic campaigns linking activists and events around the country. But for some time now it has devoted itself principally to furthering the political ambitions of the Democratic Party. That would be all well and good if it confined itself to promoting the candidacies of anti-war and progressive Democrats, which is where it started out. But with the 2006 election, it climbed into bed with the Democratic leadership and become just another, but a very smart, yellow dog Democratic organization.

The truth is that the Democratic leadership, including its leading presidential hopefuls, don't have a strategy for ending the war in Iraq. They don't have a strategy for a more peaceful world and a more humble U.S. foreign policy. They only have a strategy for winning elections -- and not a very good one at that. As Laura Flanders points out, it amounts to ignoring (if not actively snubbing) their base in order to reach out to an imaginary "center" that is as likely to vote Republican as Democrat. That strategy will only alienate the very people the Democrats need in the streets at election time, and it can only lead to victory when the Republicans are so divided among themselves that they cannot put up a good fight.

In the meantime, we have presidential hopefuls committed to foreign policy business as usual -- militarism, bluster and intervention. Thanks Norman Solomon for laying out the dismal landscape.

If you think the Swift Boat Vets were crafty in their well funded effort against John Kerry, wait until you see what will happen when Republicans think they might lose the White House in 2008. It will be nasty, sexist, racist, homophobic, etc... with a bunch of well funded lies and smears.

The candidates are protecting their right flank to protect themselves against the smears so they have a better chance of taking power.

As citizens, we need to improve our democratic system so our candidates are not forced to run for President in an environment where well funded 30 second smear campaigns have the most sway.

No matter what they say during their campaigns (Bush once said he opposed nation building missions), we know that Hillary or Barack or John will make very different decisions compared to another four years of a GOP Presidency.

It is a difficult balance between what we want to hear and what candidates must say within the corrupt game of money politics and monopoly media.

It does seem like a US attack on Iran may be coming.

Seymour Hersh and others have reported that plans are being readied and the Bush-Cheney administration wants to do it.

There may be many different outcomes from such an event. Some are discussed in:

"Will Bush, Cheney attack Iran? When and why?

PopulistAmerica.com
February 2, 2007

http://www.populistamerica.com/will_bush_cheney_attack_iran_when_and_why

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"U.S. public relations on Iraq, Iran need truth and honesty"

PopulistAmerica.com
February 21, 2007

http://www.populistamerica.com/us_public_relations_on_iraq_iran_need_truth_and_honesty

It is probably true that Iran is surrounded by countries with nuclear weapons (Israel, Pakistan and India), so why wouldn't they want to suggest, hint, that they too might someday get that capacity. But how likely are they to use them, given the overwhelming number of nuclear weapons possessed by the US (and Russia and who knows what other country), and the likelihood that if they did shoot any nuclear weapon at, say, Israel, that the US would in turn bomb them?

If they are developing nuclear power, they have the problem of waste disposal just like all the other countries. If they hope eventually to make weapons, it is surely at least three years in the future, probably more.

So why be so belligerent now and so stand-offish? Why not try to develop a relationship as time goes by so by the time the future gets here, they might reconsider that idea, and not bother to go forward? Why?

Like Bill Moyers has said, it is not the new president that will change things, but the people. When Americans start to believe in democracy (after teaching themselves about it), that will happen.
Like my 22 year-old son (who is an Obama fan) has said, "A good president may not be able to change things for the good on his own, but a bad president can definitely screw things up!"
Out of all the Dem candidates, Obama is the only one that has any detail on their campaign website about serious diplomacy with Iran.
We all need to look at the big picture, and make sure we don't get another bad president; but in the meantime be educating ourselves and start acting like citizens of a democracy. No?

longingforsanity:
I am afraid you will have to stick to your name for a long time to come, unless something on the scale of Great Depression will happen again. I do not think though that our system of government can manage coming disaster, least to avoid it. Designed in pre-nuclear era and left almost intact (including three fifth of the person clause) to benefit self-chosen few, it is beyond systemic repair, so thoroughly financial and military interests corrupted original design for the last 60 years, by itself not perfect.
So, we are ruled by fear that is by mechanism, which evolved to block normal reflection on environment and to instantly either attack or flee. When lasting more than an instance, fear becomes mental handicap.
Alas, lacking experience of lesser countries, gravely beaten, we did not developed reflex of fleeing, so we keep attacking and will do so until accumulated bloodshed will bring us back to sanity. Judging by current state of mind of people in once warrior nations such as Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany and Japan, I am very hopeful that the same bright future awaits our nation as well.
Meanwhile, to paraphrase famous maxim of War Secretary Don Rumsfeld, we have to live with whatever people we have. These are very wise words indeed. Whether sane people ruled by insane system will survive the latter is the whole different matter. But I am pretty sure that some will survive, when others will not.

It's called being stupid, and spineless. Wanting to have their cake and eat it, too, etc.

They all want to say just enough of the "right" stuff that they are being "advised" to say to maximize their votes, and being too dense to realize that they are merely upsetting us all and making themselves look...see above first two sentences.

Vitaly Purto: Thanks, I chose my screenname with this particular set of issues very much in mind. That, and the global climate change set of issues. I agree that short of something on the order of the Depression, change won't happen. And that's my despair. Not for me per se, my life is fine, though I wonder sometimes how well adapted any of us is to a world that may be so starkly changed; but for my son and all others who will have to live with the consequences of a nation (and those in Iraq now living with it, to whom I often wish I could just say "I'm so sorry" but which is so sickly inadequate to the situation)--the conseqeunces of a nation which like the Roman Emmpire before, is in decline and decadent. The "Christian right" is correct about that except that they blame the wrong people; the left is trying to pick up the pieces of a country/society already fragmenting from corporate-abetted greed. But when the center doesn't hold, we (if I still identify with "we") find someone to bomb.

I hate to beat a dead horse, but one five-letter acronym can easily explain all of this -- AIPAC. As long as AIPAC is around, Democratic candidates will continue to utter such nonsense. Why didn't the author mention AIPAC? Is Solomon afraid of AIPAC too?

As someone else already stated on a post elsewhere, the predator in a domestic violence charge always blames the victim. Who is defending the victim against the rabid bully, flailing the largest intimidating arsenal of nukes, clutched in both hands, foaming at the mouth?

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1vEuhBuEU

It's time for Progressives to move on away from MoveOn, and towards the Progressive Democrats of America. Look how long it took MoveOn to even MENTION the US occupation of Iraq as an issue. Finally, after more than a year of constant comments on their "feedback" line, they took Iraq up as an issue. Then, look at how they've joined the obfuscation around the Holt bill to get us out of the occupation. Now they're hyping Hillary? The front-running Republicrat? It appears that even MoveOn chooses not to recognize the meaning of the 11/06 election: the vast majority of Americans are absolutely sick of war under false pretenses. America sent the Democrats to a majority in both houses in the blind hope that the Dems would be a true Opposition Party. Look how wrong we were. Supporting Hillary is unconscionable, MoveOn. Let's move on. Join the Progressive Democrats of America to see the next step!

longingforsanity
"we (if I still identify with "we")" Well, we all have the same problem with that we. "We" was the title of the great anti-utopian novel written by Zamiatin in '20s, of which George Orwell was acutely aware. During my life in the Soviet Union 'we' call them 'they' and everybody knew who they were. It is not that simple in this new country. And by 'new' I mean literally NEW for all of us, especially for people around the world. In this new country, contrary to the 'The Beauty and the Beast', a great transformation is going in the reverse direction. One can compare our state to-day with that of processing in the dark room: gradual appearance of image that was already on the film but invisible to naked eye prior to applying appropriate chemicals.
Alas, unlike in old SU, where everybody knew who they were, much is still hidden in the brave new United States.
Our main and the most vital task ahead is to unveil the mystery and bring enough reason to develop Hidden Imam of what popularly was known as the US.
This is not an easy task. Meanwhile, spending our intellectual energy on differences between Baraka Clinton and Obama Hillary is wasting precious energy into deep vacuum; it would move an atom.

Norman,

We're going to nuke Middle-East. We always were. Bush promised it in his first speech after September, 11th, when he invoked memories of Pearl Harbor. Democratic candidates seem to want it as much as Republicans. Our mission has always been about military ambition and corporate domination--nukes guarantee a future where the military will control every part of our society, worldwide.

John Thomas Ellis

The ranting about AIPAC is confirmation of my worries. Do not people see that 'divide et impera' is as solid foundation for any Empire as law of gravity for physics?
And while we are ridiculing Busheviks for their incompetency, why not to ask ourselves a simple question, What if chaos and violence in the Middle East is exactly their purpose? Did not England use the same recipe book to cook up her Empire the same way as Romans did? Did we all forget steering that our Government was, is, and will be selling arms to all 'belligerent' parties in the Middle East as well as everywhere around the world?
Are we so brainwashed that we cannot connect two simple dots that in our perfect society of disposable commodities, arms and soldiers, as well as infrastructure are the most disposable, and therefore, the most profitable commodities of them all. And if not the highest rate of return on capital, what else is the highest call in our blessed by Mammon society?

Forget the Progressive Democrats of America, Alice. They are still Democrats and they will never change the donkey party from the inside. When large numbers of progressives change their registration to Green, Socialist, decline-to-state or ANYTHING but Democrat, the DLC and its corporate, militaristic candidates may begin to change their evil ways.
Join Dave Lindorff's effort by going to www.thiscantbehappening.net or check out a similar one dedicated to ending the occupation of Iraq and putting impeachment back on the table at http://switch2green.org.

Perhaps it would suit us better if we were to gather together, from amongst us, a delegation of sovereign individuals, charter a dozen planes or so and fly our own ambassadorial voice of dialog to Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Palistine.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1vEuhBuEU

Vitaly Purto-

Cessation of the states from this xenophobic lunacy, driven by the fanaticism of neocon zealotry, appears to be the only way out from the clutches of these mad people.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1vEuhBuEU

I have had it with all the above Candidates and thier line of crap! I am going to vote for the Individual who thinks of OUR children and grandchildren and who spends the least amount of money I might add ! This whole scenario is a nightmare ! I feel bad for my grandchildren who are going to live with wars, proverty, and global warming ! I am a activist from way back, and I am Proud to say a Member of the Green Party.. These candidates should get real and down to earth.. My screenname speaks for it self !

zeitgeist:
I think we are closer to that than we all imagine.
'Their' military still depends on uneducated impoverished class in Red States (Marx is rolling in his grave with that absurdity, as well as Mikhail Bakunin, that object of worship of Libertarian, whose flag was black).
Now, with Iraq, they will soon realize that dream of aerial or space bombing is just that: bloody but dream. They will need boots on the ground and a lot of them. The only magic to solve this problem is draft, no matter how loud they will deny it. With draft, presto, you have the whole Blue Nation up in arms and good bye to high tech murder technology. If kids can get into Pentagon computers, then imagine the real high-tech war. Chinese have just demonstrated the Act I of King US Lear, who divided their European knowledge inheritance between once despised Japanese, Chinese and Indian children.
Well, what cometh easy, goeth easy.

Vitaly Purto -

Sad, but true.

Wake up people!!! Nap time is over!

When a Great Light is turned into darkness, it can be - VERY - dark indeed.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1vEuhBuEU

George W. Bush has spent months marshaling military and propagandist resources to train the American people to accept an attack on Iran. An attack without a formal declaration of war, predicated on the administration's assertion that Iran is behind assaults on U.S. troops in Iraq. An attack with precedent in the Cambodian and Laotian fronts in the Vietnam War.

Bush watchers know this. Likewise congressional Democrats. Hence, the wartime spending legislation in the House that fleetingly contained a provision barring unauthorized military force in Iran.

The House leadership reportedly succumbed to pressure from conservative Democrats, lobbyists from neoconservative groupings that want war with Iran and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The authorization requirement vanished. Democratic opponents feared it tied the administration's hands when dealing with Tehran.

Someone, please tie the president's hands. Duct-tape him to a chair. Anything to keep his fingers off the trigger. Go down the hall or into the bunker or whichever shadow Dick Cheney is lurking in and tape him down, too.

Tie the hands of Clinton, Edwards, Obama and everyone else whose "no option is off the table" posturing by definition embraces a preemptive nuclear first strike against America's enemies.

Is there no end to these foreign policy hawks?

It is delusion to think that ANYone, regardless of political stripes, has risen to power without complicity. Everyone who is a true threat to the *system* has already been assassinated.

Democrats exist only to present the illusion of choice. They take their orders and their hush money from the same people as the republicons.

Pull your heads out of the sand.

One cannot attempt to decipher these events and circumstances with the assumption that none of it makes sense. It makes sense to those who are truly in power. They benefit from all these "mistakes", albeit indirectly.

One must study history and look much farther back than the current crisis. The POWERS THAT BE and their predecessors have been running the same play book for thousands of years. They have been playing Sims with us for generations.
However, the sky is not falling. All is not lost. They are predictable and can still be outmanuvered. But take warning, we paint targets on ourselves by merely dissenting. The *system*, The powers that be, do not have our best interests at heart and have already broken every law & every right to attain their power. To fight lawbreakers with more laws is ridiculous. And to listen to one word that their puppets say is foolish.

We cannot fight destruction with destruction. We must fight it with creation. It is up to us to make something better.

Vitaly Purto,

"The ranting about AIPAC"????? The administration may wish to divide and conquer, but AIPAC is on their side, or at least they are on AIPAC's side. AIPAC is not on the side of American progressives or the poor and oppressed of the world by anyone's calculation. AIPAC is for the abject subjugation of millions of Palestinians and Israeli domination of the Middle East. AIPAC is for nuking Iran. AIPAC is for wanton murder and genocide. And the Democratic candidates know that if they defy AIPAC, they can kiss their hopes goodbye.

AIPAC is not the only demon in US politics, as it is but one of many, and Bush and Cheney do not need AIPAC to tell them to dominate the Middle East, murder the population, and steal the oil. They would do it anyway. But I still believe there might be some electable Democrats who would not, if it weren't for AIPAC.

"Mikhail Bakunin, that object of worship of Libertarian, whose flag was black..."

I likewise laugh out loud when I meet a Bill gates/Steve Jobs - worshiping "Libertarian" who claims he is also an anarchist!

Gravel and Kucinich need to get their dues. They are capable of leading this country and they are both peace candidates. They are not beholden to interests that will pursue war in the Middle East. Far too many of us constituents buy into the bogus media opinion that they are fringe or unelectable and that there are only three horses in this race.

Want an anti-war candidate? Start with Gravel and Dennis.

kivals:

***AIPAC is not the only demon in US politics, as it is but one of many, and Bush and Cheney do not need AIPAC to tell them to dominate the Middle East, murder the population, and steal the oil. They would do it anyway.***

Yes, same ill wind filling the sails of this boat. All one needs to do is observe the roster of virulent ideologues Bush has surrounded himself with from the Pat Robertson School for government attorneys - motto being - a force for change in direction. Christian/Zionism! Yeah! Right onto the bloody rocks!

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1vEuhBuEU

There is at least one Democrat running for president who does have a true anti- war, pro peace platform and plan, Dennis Kucinich. He voted against the new funding for Iraq. He is the one progressives of any or no party should support. If he starts getting some real support, the media will stop ignoring him and the other canidates will have start acknowledging the issues he brings up. I urge all of you to check out his web site or interview with Amy Goodman on the Democracy Now website. He does not take funding from the corporatocracy. This should be one of our major criteria for anyone running for office.
Anyone who voted for Nader, don't let anyone make you feel guilty. The election was stolen by fraud both times mostly against minority voters. The Dems were too spineless or bought out to contest it like they do in other countries when this sort of thing happens. If anyone is interested in the details of these frauds read Armed Madhouse by Gary Palast. If we are not on our toes the same thing only worse will happen on 08.

This is a great piece at exposing the TRUTH.

It would be helpful also at the end to note that Presidential Candidate, (grossly ignored by the media including Move-on), DENNIS KUCINICH is AGAINST military action against Iraq. Is it any wonder the media tries to ram Clinton & Obama down our throats and tries to silence KUCINICH?

DON'T LET THE RIGHT WING MEDIA PICK OUR NEXT PRESIDENT! They laugh when they fool us! Let's not be fooled again by Republicans in Democratic clothing.

If we want REAL CHANGE here, we must pick a REAL Anti-War candidate. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

the economy of the modern world is a war economy - no war no modernity.

i wish somebody,anybody would put all options for peace "on the table"

why doesn't anybodyput all options for peace on the table

I worked for Dennis in 2004 and ended up with Kerry. I'm compromising with John Edwards who I grew to like a lot during the '04 campaign. He has good programs for the working people and the preservation of the middle class, even though, as a peacenik, I have left messages about the Iran comment on the Edwards' campaign phone answering machine and have never received a response back. I think I will copy out the above article and send it to the Edwards campaign with a few notes.

Get real, U.S.A. -- we all supposed to be getting rid of nukes, not just Iran. That was part of the deal. I agree with Gary. We need the option of PEACE on the table. Are you listening John and Elizabeth??!!?

Senator Feingold has proposed legislation for funding Iraq for only as long as it takes us to leave -- no dollars for death, only for withdrawal. Sounds good to me.

Robert Fisk of the Independent.UK reports that the Petraeus plan for Iraq is to wall off or barricade neighborhoods after rounding up all the "bad guys." Some areas will have "joint security" bases with both Iraqi and American soldiers who will protect the citizenry from violence and win their hearts and mind. Citizens will need special id cards allowing them entry to their gated neighborhoods. And about 40,000 US military will be ranged across Iraq to guard against Iran. So, Bush Admin., how many decades will it take for THIS occupation to "win" Iraq for freedom and democracy or whatever the current definition of victory may be? About the same as the length of oil company leases now being negotiated?

I like the Feingold plan better.

I have long thought that the only option for peace is that We the People eliminate the profit to Corporate America that war brings. We are the largest exporter of war materiel in the world with bases in over 100 of the 135 countries on the planet. WE PAY FOR ALL THIS....thus, the death, misery and distruction is our responsibility. Unfortunately, if you ever stand outside a Wal-Mart and try to get a petition signed for an issue, you will find that the great majority of Wal-Mart shoppers are not actually registered to vote. There's a place to start, go to any post office and get some voter registration forms (I think once upon a time I also had to fill out a form that I was a registrar) and start doing your part to get others to do theirs. IF everyone who could vote would vote our world would be a much better place. The Republicans are WAY outnumbered....but they have a high instance of actually doing the work.

John Freeman

grandmaforpeace I hear you! I told the guy polling for the democrats on a NYC streetcorner that I had defected from the party after both my senators approved the Military Commissions act. With these clowns among the Democratic party, they're going to have to really work to convince me to believe anything they claim to offer.

I can't cast my vote so the govt. continues the policy of aggression abroad, and pays for murdering and torturing people off somewhere with our tax money.

Analyze Obama's 2001-2006 data: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00009638&cycle=2006.

Yahoo (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/40/40214.html) says that Henry Crown & Co. is a top competitor of the Carlyle Group.

As for the other top contributors to his past bid, I bet U of Chicago, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase & Co are sort of AIPAC leaning. And so his mideast policy, like Hilary's will be a relfection of the people who paid to get him elected....I mean who he represents...I mean who voted for him...I mean, well, it depends on whether we still qualify as a democracy, or whether the office is largely sold to the highest bidder.

Look at the following article by Robert Brenner in the newest edition of the New Left Review:
http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2652
Brenner details how the rise of the New Right has been achieved with the complicity of the Democratic Party, from the New Deal on. The DP has sucked the life out of one progressive movement after another, because just like the Republicans, they are the party of Corporate Capital. It's high time that "progressive liberals" begin to understand this: the Democrats are not our friends. They are part of the problem. We need a socialist labor party in the United States: not another capitalist party like the Greens.

Analyze Obama's 2001-2006 data: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00009638&cycle=2006.

It may well be that AIPAC-friendly money comes via other sources also?

First Iraq, then Iran. The boy who cried wolf is doing it again.

To HELL with your "FIRST TIER" candidates and politics, fear, and aggression AS USUAL! Dennis Kucinich is the voice of peace and sanity in this horrible time in which we find ourselves. IT'S TIME FOR REAL CHANGE, damnit!

Go to www.kucinich.us and read and read and learn and learn, then say to hell with the media's "superstars" for president
and spread the word on this INCREDIBLE man! We need a real change! We need faith in leadership. We need hope instead of soundbites and apathy. DENNIS KUCINICH: He has "NO STRINGS" attached to corporate America or any right wing B.S. Amy Goodman loves this guy. Give him a look and you will too!

ScSchmidt - I love the duct tape idea! Never thought of that. The pictures in my head are wonderful. After all, duct tape is supposed to be a good solution in almost any situation. Gotta love your imagination!

I agree with Brown! Before you dissert the Democratic party, vote for Kucinich in the primaries! Send them a message they won't forget. Then, if Kucinich dosen't get the nomination, drop your Democratic Party registration and let them know LOUDLY why you are leaving.

Interesting Note: In the Virtual Town Hall given by Move On on Wednesday, their members put Hillary in 4th or 5th place behind Edwards, Kucinich and Richards! Wonder if they got a message there?

Extending our welcome.

Instead of watching continued destruction of the human family and waiting for the bomb to drop, I hope that folks will come to understand that we are voting with every dollar and every moment we spend. Real democracy (derived from the Greek meaning 'Power of the people') has little to do with marking anonymous 'X's once every four years, it is economic (derived from the Greek 'Oikonomia' = 'Care and nurture of the home and family) as Consumers and as Producers.

We need to learn to stand still with the gift of life all around us, feel its power and consider how each of us is going to include each other in producing a better life together. Indigenous people know that peace begins in our systems of recognising each other. The system of the String Shell, used throughout the Americas, was based in the Time-based Accounting recognition of the Production Society, a form of progressive ownership in each specialty similar to the Guild system. We need to learn to group together with each other for producing life by recognising the complementation of our differences.

This form of 'livelihood' logic is partly what drives the right, even though they institute it as a form of 'exclusion for survival', they still have the right tendencies to incorporating (acting as bodies of people). If folks want to join together in order to extend our welcome, we will be pleasantly surprised that we already have the power.

We don't need to throw open the doors of our homes (security is important), but to begin the discussion with each other, local business and our companies on how to invest together for sustainable solutions? We can recognise and empower the diverse stakeholder Founder, Employee, Supplier and Consumer groups that form our economic relations. Acting economically is a body language that the system understands. Once we are walking the talk, we are easily understood.

Political democracy is part of the solution but only an incomplete understanding of the whole. Peace candidates will then have real people to represent.

Register Democratic so you cn vote for Kucinich in teh primaries then reregister Green and vote for either Kucinich or Nader in the general election (even if you have to write it in--no they aren't perfect just less dirty than anybody else.

Pelosi '07 Kucinich '08

Kucinich's platform is what, 98% of the Green platform? And he speaks it clearly and concisly and at a higher national level than anyone on the Green horizon. Even if he doesn't get to the White House, with Green support he could bring a progressive voice back to the national debate that has been missing for 60 years - a major victory.

And who knows, with the devastation to the working class going on Kucinich's humanity could be the winning touch compared to the disingenuous puppy dog eyes of Edwards and Obama.

But first things first. It appears the Neocons will be content to grind the all volunteer military into the ground and make it an all privatised Blackwater operation. This plus the unmitigated rape of the US Treasury make the removal of this mafia imperative.

Search Articles of Impeachment, construct your own Articles of Impeachment then hand deliver it to nieghbors and your Congressional office with a boisterous reading.

The call must come from the Citizens.

Pelosi '07 Kucinich '08

One Mind, One Heart, One Voice: Impeach!

Solomon's article is fantastic. He is drawing a line. He is separating what is progressive and what is miltiarist. His first three sentences do that. Here's why Solomon's key focus is so important:

Corporate militarists are attempting to co-opt "progressive" for their status quo policies of empire abroad and a police state and corporate domination at home. They are trying to seize the emerging identity of the progressive political movement--our name--"progressive." Norman Solomon is a true progressive. So is Kucinich. And Cindy Sheehan. And most of the writers on the Commondreams author list. But being a progressive must remain about ideas--and political tactics that retain our progressive ideas. Being progressive is about the solutions progressives offer to solve the problems we face locally, nationally and globally.

This is easy to pin down: the Kucinich issues section on his website; the Green Party 2004 Platform; Nader's Platform; the platforms of the emerging state progressive caucuses in the State Democratic parties; PDA's basic thrust; and what Chomsky says . . .

The simplest distinction at the level of foreign policy is this: empire versus Earth community, with the global rule of law.

Domestic policy: help the needy and turn Hood Robin into Robin Hood after all the corporate pilfering. And put EMPLOYEES on the Boards of corporations with a required federal charter. That's Nader's idea from the early 1990s.

Electoral Reform: make the will of the people the law of the land. That means a multi-party democracy with private money banned. Period.

The idea in the above comment about MoveOn becoming supporters of "blue dog Democrats" is just right. That is part of attempting to co-opt "progressive."

it is great that so many commentors get it at CommonDreams, the "Home of the Progressive Community."

Don't let the empire-supporting, war-promoting, corporate-supporting, militarists like Obama, Clinton, Edwards, MoveOn and the other corporate-regime Democrats co-opt "progressive."

Hear hear for Kucinich in 08. Forget that losing notion of "electability" that deprived progressives of candidate Dean in 04. I am down with impeachment of Shrub and Big Time too and, as a committed Bokononist, know it will happen very soon.

If you think the political system can help us, or ever intended to help us, you are doomed.

They are the ones who put us here.

If you think holding a sign will change the world, you are not only wrong you are stupid.

I understand that people are paralyzed by fear. I understand they are grasping at straws, desperate for their voice to be heard. I understand that we as a nation have been dumbed and numbed to the point of gibbering. I understand that as long as we pawns continue to attack opposing knights and pawns, instead of the players who pit us against each other; then we will continue to be manipulated. If we choose to live in fear, then the terrorists in the white house have won.

The time has come for action, not activism.

Peace,
Permanent!