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Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Don't go down without a fight.... remember that all this use of "Chemical Weapons" on his own people... the US sold Iraq the chemicals in the 80's when Saddam was our buddy, killing the Iranians. Saddam is a US project gone wrong, and he is a threat.... but starting a war is not the Answer. Check out http://www.internationalanswer.org and http://www.unitedforpeace.org for ideas on how you can continue to stand against "Bush's war".... be sure to reference it as so and to not let people you encounter refer to it as "America's War" for America is wholelisticly NOT behind its president in this action.

I spent a lot of my youth in the UN, in high school I was a 2 time national champion of the Model UN conference in New York, and I can tell you that 15 year-old kids have made better arguments than anyone from the Bush administration has on the floor of the United Nations. Someone else asked where the "lies" were in Bush's speech, well the "time for diplomacy has past" is the dead giveaway. Bush wants a war, not the American people.

As a NJ resident I am lucky that both of my Senators already agree with me... but the rest of you guys out there, take the time to email/fax/call your senators and let them know how you feel http://www.senate.gov

-- Mitch

I must say that last night's speech was one of the better speeches that Bush has been able to deliver. I was only able to listen to the speech, and have yet to go over to C-span.org to watch the video... but as heard, it sounded like he read-over his lines a lot before going on stage.

At first I felt very anxious... wishing he'd get past the whole BS and get to the -- Are We Starting A War or What --

The "Coalition of the Willing" statement has bothered me almost as much as last years reference of all enemies as "evil do-ers"

This Willing team is what? 2, 3 countries? All of whom were pretty much under US duress. It bothers me so much that public outcry cannot get to the MAINSTREAM public forum.... TV. Its fairly obvious to me, that most of the educated community online has a much better understanding of the FACTS... and even though many of them still support war, I can respect their opinion because they at least have the knowledge of things like Cheney's Haliburton contracts, and the Bush / Bin-Laden Family Ties. However, if the real FACTS were reported to the public at large (as they are in other countries) I think the public opinion of America would be largely Anti-Bush. We've seen the Labour Party turn on Blair.... we've even seen the Bush Administration try to blame the UN 2nd resolution idea on Blair, once it was clear that it would not pass in the Security Council. Yet any Bush backlash can only come from blogs, liberal radio, and "Alternative" news sites... This is probably due to the fact that the Bush 1st Cousins own Fox News... but that only takes care of one major media source. Wouldn't it be great to see the same sort of anger and backtalk that we all see online --- on TV.... I dream, I dream.

Getting Back to the speech.... FOR THE LOVE OF OIL.... DON'T BURN YOUR OIL...... so America can use it :wink:

As if a week's worth of Freedom Fries, and Freedom Dressing wasn't enough... Bush tries to embarress the American name. I keep telling myself I won't let him... I won't let him take away the American pride that I have... the love of our system -- Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Jefferson.... all of their dreams for America are being destroyed by Bush everyday.

Ack... I'm tired... so let me give a final thought so people can try and tear me apart. Congress only gave the ok to use force CONDITIONAL upon a UN approval. If Bush -- STARTS A WAR -- by invading another nation, he will tear down any legitimacy of America, he will destroy the United Nations rendering it useless, and most importantly he will create an entire new generation of terrorists around the world.... that we will have to deal with for the rest of our lives... but what does he care.

I want Saddam removed from power, but starting an open war will forever doom America to be the "bad guys" that started it all (WW3 ??, possibly)

Yours

-- Mitch Manzella
http://mcmanzi.tripod.com

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