Perhaps Obama believes he can control his generals and Wall Street advisors but they may control him. Let's instead wage a war on unemployment,foreclosures and poverty.

shach, well said.

Hit the streets and hit the phones of your reps to let them know that doing the same thing over and over and getting the same bad result means your crazy or a pawn of the MIC.

What remains of US social cohesiveness is seriously jeopardized by the renewal and escalation of warring in Afghanistan. We are already on the verge of attacking one another because nothing we are told by those we have entrusted makes any sense; hence we are confused, outraged and divided.

All of the information we are supposed to rely on to guide us in our decision making and to form the basis of consensus and unity consists in one contradiction piled on top of another. That is the natural outcome of endless warring, since warfare depends upon the use of force and fraud for its 'success.'

Neither the Taliban nor al Qaeda are being defeated by reliance upon more force and upon more fraud; but we are.

Oh the generals who I appointed and kept from mad king georges reign, those I can fire in a heart beat, are making me do it, yeah right.

Duh, Obomber said he would escalate during his campaign.

Dear Evan McMorris-Santoro - The country is pretty evenly divided on the wisdom of escalating the war. The coalition's demands are hardly "to the extreme left-wing side." Have you even read them? Ending torture? Closing black site prisons? Stopping renditions? Closing Guantanamo?

Yesterday the NY Times reported:

"While officials say the president plans to announce sending an additional 30,000 or so troops to Afghanistan, most Americans in the poll do not support a troop increase. About one-third (32 percent) do, while about 4 in 10 (39 percent) say the number of troops should be decreased. Just 20 percent or 2 in 10 say troop levels should be kept the same.

"Democrats are the least likely to support an increase – just 17 percent do, compared with 34 percent of independents and about half of Republicans."

Yep, those mainstream Democrats, independents, and half of Republicans equalling a plurality of Americans - crazy left-wingers for sure, all of them.

Where to begin. Would venture a bet that most Americans would buy a charismatic candidate who speaks for the workers. We need a Labor Party or a Democratic Party transformed into a labor party. The platform would be easy to create, just make it the opposite of most of the things we are doing now. The choice, to challenge Obama and sitting Congressmen in the primaries, or start a new party. The former is easier. Make the centerpiece election reform, publicly financed elections and the rest built on the rational dissatisfaction of most Americans. Examples, a nation of laws and respect for international law, changing the Defense Department to really concern itself with defense and not propping up an empire, a strong dollar, good paying jobs providing goods and services we need and the rest of the world might buy, a real change in energy policies.

The pot is boiling.

Herman Schmidt

This is the one! This is a must attend party! They can't fit millions of us in "Free Speech" corrals. They can't taser and arrest us all. Please on Dec 12, go to to the White House and show your massive support for all progressive causes. It will be lots of fun.

http://www.gp.org/index.php

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48015

http://polizeros.com/2009/11/30/afghanistan-war-emergency-anti-escalation-rally/

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=25044

http://tweetmeme.com/story/310887928/dc-emergency-anti-escalation-rally-lafayette-park-saturday-december-12th-11-am-4-pm-great-lineup-of-speakers-music-afterdowningstreetorg

http://www.peaceactionme.org/blog/dec-2nd-12th-emergency-anti-escalation-vigils-and-rallies-info-maine-boston-and-dc

http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622251

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/115918

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x11598

http://www.rense.com/general88/noyoucant.htm

The subject of this article is the planned rally of December 12. Comments should be stay on topic - specifically planning and organizing to get there, and not more unproductive bellaching to the choir.

Once again we see the attempt to hold back the ocean with a chain link fence.
Protests used to work when the government was actually concerned with the interests of it's citizens.
That is no longer the case.
Modern government is driven by corporate interests alone. (i.e. The Wal-Mart the protesters bought their materials at to make the signs)
The end result of this protest is that it will allow a lot of people to vent their frustration about things they can never change, and it will allow them to expand their social group. It'll also make for some nice Facebook pics.
As far as making a difference to the war, Obama's plans, or any government issue, I say not a bloody chance in hell.
Corporate America is running the show. Protesting to the government is like complaining to a beer vendor because you don't like the fair.