Peace is a Revolutionary Idea in the Land of the Free!!!

Consider for a moment that, despite repeated attempts by many in the populace to push the elected officials into making peace the primary agenda, members of the Democratic Party, whose congressional members were elected precisely because the American People are fed up with President Bush's warmongering, continue to say in their public statements that they still have ABSOLUTELY NO AGENDA. They continue to side with the preposterous concept of bipartianship, in this case APPEASEMENT, of the rubbish policies of 'pre-emptive defense' and other nonsense uttered by the Bush Dynasty and its paramilitary force of corporate lobbyists, cronies of the military-industrial complex, and evangelical Quiverfull movement, a hardline Protestant Christian following that advocates giving birth to many children to create 'Soldiers for Christ'.

A German friend of mine asked me what my solutions are. I say to him, and to others, that everything's gone to lucre, FILTHY FLIPPIN LUCRE! Everything within reason, that is. Legislation, as is, has become entirely ineffective. The only way to win against the chicken hawks is to convince those doing the fighting to stop.

So far, I've joined a movement called the Appeal for Redress (www.appealforredress.org). This is an organization of fellow active-duty, reserve, individual ready reserve, and guard members of all branches of the Uniformed Services of the USA, that are exercising their legal rights under DOD regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to seek a redress from the war in Iraq from their congressional representatives. It's running fairly small, however, and I personally have become very isolated, damn near everyone else in my unit has succumbed to the dehumanization of the Iraqi population, openly glorifying more and more brutal means of dealing Americanized 'freedom' upon those who seek not democracy, but the preservation of their religious identity, having lived for so long in such a strong environment of religious fervor, that they are unprepared to succumb to the secularization of the West that they so abhor. Culture endures in the Middle East over the Crusades of the 21st Century, a war against the 'Islamo-Fascists'...RUBBISH. FILTHY STINKING RUBBISH. It's all about the oil, and overcoming OPEC, which has hampered the American military-industrial complex's progress in the world, and allows nations like China and Russia to reap the rewards of neo-conservative realpolitik ruining the greatness that is America, which has been in drastic decline since the 'Golden Days of Reaganomics'.

So you want my solution? People need to realize that financing a great and powerful military does NOT work in the favor of all Americans, but empowers the fearmongering neo-conservative military industrial complex to misuse and abuse the great power of America, to use that power for evil, and enrich the profits of the few, whilst the masses pick up the metaphorical check. The Cold War military must die; the Peace Dividend must be realized; America will die if it 'stays the course'.