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PeaceBringing The U. S. Troops Home Now. Again I raise the issue above. Again Congressman Jay inslee commends himself for supporting the troops in Iraq. I try a new approach. I call it a dose of reality. I remind him that doctors have called this conflict the war of the missing legs. I tell him where the legs go. I point out that with every passing day that our troops remain in Iraq more of them leave their legs in Iraqi garbage cans. I suggest that he ask a doctor how human legs smell rotting in 120 degree heat. Will that get the desired action?
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Rotting Legs
Hi, Emily! It's good to see your name on this site again.
I hear your frustration, anger, and sadness in trying to get through to your legislators about Iraq. Having just come out of a bout with my Representative in which my endorsement of the DoP legislation was answered as if I were "just" another anti-war activist, I am once again hanging my figurative head in front of the propeace community over my Senator's letting everyone know that the confirmation of Alito is a done deal in spite of the fact that he's the supposedly impartial Chair of the Judiciary Committee. However, I submit that until those rotting legs are in the legislators' own garbage cans, they don't make a bit of difference. In other words, they can't smell them from here!
I suggest that you try to meet your legislators on their own terms. There are abundant tools to use from Al Gore and Walter Cronkite on our homepage. Also, please click here and scroll down a bit until you come to an entry called "10 Things Martin Luther King Would Have Done About Iraq" by Juan Cole, a leading Middle East scholar. For instance, we say, "Support the Troops - Bring Them Home," but Dr. Cole (and Dr. King) give us the vocabulary, the sound bites, to make that connection more clearly. You will make more progress if you talk about missing dollars than about missing legs. (Sad but true.)
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We have not evolved enogh:
You're right! There is something missing. The ability to get along. Might is not the answer. We know that. Johm Lennon's "Imagine". That's what's missing. To be able to live his words; "nothing to kill or die for". Question is, "What are we willing to give up for peace?".
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Do we understand Words
Words, your right we don't uderstand them. We use them well though. The poems I put on this site "Tree talk Tales" and "Learning to Walk on Water" my father wrote. He long since passed away. There is alot of truth in what he wrote. He did descover that words do exist by nature. I know what you're thinking. But, Up till now man with all his war machines hasn't even come close to peace. We tried for peace with a musket, now we use atomic bombs. We are still no closer to peace now then we were then.
To this day we still don't use the correct meanings of the words in the Bible. We will continue "to slew and sley...but so did God to have his way". As long as we teach this, it is not possible to rise above God. It's your choice now to read more and seek for the truth. Give it a chance. (it=Peace) What do you have to lose.
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LET'S ALL WORK FOR A DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
War has been with us for centuries and it seems to be the preferred method of changing things. We have not evolved enough to respect each other and to work through diplomacy.
We have made words like peace and love perjorative. It is frightening to think that people would volunteer to kill men, women and children in Iraq in order to export our Democracy to their country against their will.
It is more frightening to think that words don't mean anything any more. Men and women defending their country from invaders are called "insurgents" and "terrorists" and the invaders are the "good guys". When will they ever learn?
About the legs.....Bush metaphorically doesn't have a leg to stand on to support his war against humanity. Harry Belafonte should win the Nobel Prize for Peace for his life long struggle to attain peace.
PEACE