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With soldiers caught in wasting combat, each day that President Bush is not impeached, his adminisatan uses red blood to whitewash the truth. And, behind the whitewash, Bush is morally insane, intellectually incompetent, and guilty of the only human terror that has ever stalked the world: ignorance equipped with power. Since Bush and company will never say they are impotent for genuinely moral action, every direct and indirect manner of support he receives from Congress is defunct for anything, other than self-promotion. It is as if our representatives’ mantra is “God forbid that my legislative career should be sacrificed to spare the life of a solider; even if that life is being wasted on a bankrupt mission, borne from deception, sustained by corruption, and upheld by blatantly political and capitalistic expediencies”.

America’s government is in a state of moral paralysis; and because we are not represented by our representatives, we are no longer a government of the people, but a ship adrift. As Bush infects the world with the same diseased principles that he says he is fighting, he represents a kind of moral-Ebola. Truly, some habits are worse than others: Alcoholics ask for more drinks, junkies ask for more dope, but Bush asked for a surge and got it! Therefore, with compassion: Dear Mr. Bush, if you really love Jesus, stop crucifying the truth. And, Dear Congressmen: Stop making soldiers subservient to statements and votes geared to maintaining your careers over their lives! If for no other reason other than being sane enough to know that it is time to pull the plug on this stupidity, vote like a soldier in Iraq who wants and deserves to come home! Next, stop pretending that you have wisdom for peace, and look for folks that do! With all speed, now more than ever, do anything and everything to bring our children home. Then, hold to the fact that the only way to honor the life of a soldier who deserves to live is to let him. Therefore, with compassion, impeach every zombie of courage that maintains the Bush Adminisatan.

Sincerely,
Rev.,Prof., Gola Wolf Richards, www.MottoCitizens.com

I was working in Paris when Bush took office. Friends and co-workers chided "After that actor, how could you?!" The Europeans understood our election of Bush to be emblematic of our collective Lapse Of Intelligence. They would say: You did it once (Bush Sr), why would you want to repeat this error (Bush Jr). I had no answer. The one comfort: he would be gone in 4years.But the ipso facto presidents, Rove and Cheney, succeeded to huff and puff and blow our house apart and,in the process, managed to fashion and manufacture a Stain(Bush Jr)that will forever blot our National Honor. Nevermind our vaunted geopolitical ethics and competence--with that we have recklessly spendtrift.

Americans,elected officials-Dems & GOP-are blameworthy. That Bush & Co were able to sell that rot about Sadaam to the country was a sign that we were enfeebled, shorn of pride, filled with hubris. This New World Order thing didn't smell very good either. Something about it..the stench of reichishness. Very scarey. But plunge ahead we did and now we want out. We demand:Get us out! Get us OUT NOW, we scream beyond frustration and with the belated comprehension of having acquiesced to some very bad choices. That old aphorism "you've made your bed now lie in it" is even more appropriate now than before.

This is from a post above:

'We tried the "Let's be their friend" tactic..'

Did you really do that? I am from the ME and I never saw any of your governments do that. What I saw continually was:

1. Beefing up your troops and more military camps.
2. Supporting depsots and arming them to their teeth.
3. Preventing any measure of democracy.
4. providing intelligence to these despots to put down any form of resistence including peaceful ones.
5. Ignoring grave human rights violations by your so-called friendly regimes.
6. Supporting Israel with billions of dollars and in the UN as if they can never do anything wrong.
7. Denouncing Palestinians as if they can nver do any right.
8. Never taking a forceful path to peace in return for your tax-paid funding of Israel.
9. The list goes on. Do a google for our recent history and visit http://www.ifamericansonlyknew.org/

Osama Bin Laden had few demands and he went public with them. Your media never brught these to your attention. He demanded that you pull your troops out of Saudi because it was a sacred place for Muslims and that you take a just approach to the problem of Palestinians and not support despots. These are what majority of us were telling you over the last 50 years, yet OBL hijacked this cause and did what he does. There was bound to be some repercussions for such continual interference. Even then majority of the people of the ME prefer peace to war but with a life of degnity and without interference. My father accepted being a slave in his own country but I can not and my children even more so. They wish to be free as you do. I and many like myself, totally dislike OBL and his cohorts with crazy Wahabi teachings but your governments have supported these thugs and continues to do so. So, many of us left our countries seeking a freerer life but your successive governments continue their interference on a bigger scale thus creating more radicals and enemies for yourself. How many of you knew Fallujah? Iraq never did 911. Iraqis were never your enemies. You armed Saddam to his teeth and supported him in his 8 years with Iran. All your newspapers currently are paiting Iran and Persians as the next enemy, in preparation for your military expansion and protection of Israel/Zionists. Iranians are gentle people with a long civilisation, history and culture. Do you wish to turn them into enemies? I guess there are some 1-2 million Iranians in the US. They will all be suspects, profiled and turned into enemies. Google for PNAC and check out the authors of this plan.

You reap what you sow. The only surprise is that 911 came so late, after 100 years of Western interference in the affairs of ordinary Middle Easterners. If revenge was your motive then a hellofalot more Arabs/Muslims have died than in 911. Enough is enough. Treat people as you like them to treat you.

When will we learn that we are all one, with same aspirations and dreams and instead of finding faults in others, we should be more concerned about our own faults. Why fear one another when we can be freinds to each other? Send us your doctors, educators, teachers, scientists, philsophers and not soldiers armed with your latest WMD. As I write this your 5th Fleet is stationed in my country - for the last 23 years - with atomic bombs on board. Why do you need this? If you had a good system then you would not need to push it through the burrell of a gun? Then you accuse us of being reactionaries and terrorists for objecting to your continued military presence. Would you like to see Japanese soldiers roaming your cities and dictating their policies onto your self-appointed rulers? I hazard a guess that your answer would be NO. Then how can you expect any of us to answer the same question with a YES.

I wish peace for ALL CReATION and GOD is my witness. Such is my absolute faith. When we learn to love one another, only then we can learn to love God.

God wants us to be thankful for what we have been given through Him. But answering your cry to heaven against this war think of this way: of course war is not good. But seeing that the enemy we are fighting are using God's name to do incredible acts of violence, then I am against them and support our troops and Senator McCain who want to stop them over there, before they come back here again and again.

At least you're willing to address the notion that you, as an American, are partially responsible for this sickening mess. So am I. We all are. If you're not speaking out against the filthiest, most degenerate and evil regime in this country's history, then you fully deserve what's coming your way. All religions speak of kharma, although in different terms. But Bush and co. aren't the disease, merely the symptoms of the 79% of Americans who wanted this war. And even though Buckley and the Right are scrambling to distance themselves and pin the blame on someone else, they ain't foolin' nobody. Everyone earns their own fate, and there's no such thing as a victim, in the big picture.

Hope Mr. Anderson's son does not have to go to Iraq because he will make Cindy Sheehan look like a hawk if his son gets hurt or killed in Nam ... oh, I mean in Iraq. I agree with him that none of us should be satisfied either with ourselves or the condition of the world and I don't even have a son in the military getting ready to go to Nam ... I mean Iraq.

Hey Frank, read a little Karl Rove today. "not relevent?" Couldn't you be a little more original and less irrelevant?

"We have created a training and recruitment ground for terrorists that is giving birth to a whole future generation of eager recruits."

I can appreciate and relate to most of the other comments, but this is so wrong in so many ways. We tried the "Let's be their friend" tactic under the Clinton regime while they were bombing away at our embassies, planes, ships, and World Trade Center towers. Furthermore, we allowed Al Queda to take over an entire country, Afghanistan, and set up literally hundreds of terrorist training grounds. Seems to me that the olive branch foreign policy under Clinton served only one purpose - to encourage terrorists to become even bolder in light of the fact that they faced absolutely no retaliation. Unless, of course, you consider a Stinger missle at an Egyptian pharmaceutical plant "retaliation."

You can debate the merits of the Iraq war all you want, but it's unbelievably naive to think that terrorism begins or ends in Iraq. Terrorism ends when the entire world is under Islamic regime or when the U.S. (and its allies) and Israel are wiped off the map.

"Look at how much blood is crying to God"

You might have meant "hear how much blood cries out".

You didn't say WHOSE blood is crying out or WHAT their blood is saying. Innocent blood is currently being shed indiscriminatly across the globe. Our media gives ruthless wholesale murder less than a glance. When their cries are heard in chorus -it tells an unforgetable story. We should be made aware lest more innocent blood be spilt.

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Hey Frank, if he's not even relevant than why reply?

What does that then make you?

I am certainly a member of several intersecting groups -- US citizen, Catholic, middle class -- that are having trouble getting their actions to mirror their stated ideals. Lucky for me I don't identify myself by my group membership. As an individual I try to be happy without it making me self-satisfied or complacent. Part of that has to include letting my better instincts take control as often as possible. Another part is not letting my dissatisfaction with the current leadership move me to jump into other mistakes.

Frank Collins- Talk about not relevant. Maybe you should take a break.

take a break - nam is over and you are not relevant.

I didn't think of the question in that context. I am reasonably satisfiied with who I am, but I am not satisfied with who WE are.

Mr. Anderson is absolutely right! When I look at our world, not only Iraq, but Afghanistan, Dafur, etc. there is much to be done.

I wish I had a magic want I could wave.....

I think the answer depends on how you define “your life”.

If you look at it as an individual separated from others and your surroundings then will form a different answer than if you look at it as I am just part of the larger picture. As Mr. Anderson point out how can we be satisfied with the big picture.

Perhaps that is one of our problems the idea of self taking precedence over the idea of the whole. I am not saying that all people are selfish just that our perception is we are separate and thus self becomes a focus. If we treated each other as if we were all one then I think that would have significant impact upon our world.

Perhaps that would even help eliminate war someday.

Regardless of whether the current situation in the mid east is considered ‘justified’ or not is irrelevant. When has war ever come without a huge price? When is war ever aligned with spirituality?

If people say that war is ok when ‘a war is just ‘then I would like to know how they reconcile that with their religion/spirituality.

Thank you Mr. Anderson and a big thanks to your son.

Thank you again for being honest about the war and it's consequences.

Our President and his fellow chicken hawks in Washington should be ashamed.