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[sun_set_bravely]

How can we save our country now?

There are stories of unauthorized napalm use in Iraq, by US troops. Evidently, the US is the only country that didn't ratify the 1980 UN treaty banning the use of napalm against civilians. Sick, sick, sick. Once again, we've destroyed a city to save a city, the New York Times -- a fairly progressive newspaper -- declared this morning that "Major Concern in Fallujah Will Be Trust" instead of "Pig-headed US Refuses to Learn from History", and the citizens of the world think that I, a US citizen, want this to be done in my name. Mercury is in retrograde, but that just doesn't cut it for explanations of the bleak morning I've woken up to.

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edit: in slightly promising news, at least someone in the US media is calling the support of Ukrainian protesters a "rank hypocrisy."

Comments

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

well IMO, we have to spend the next four years, fighting tooth and nail against almost everything that the current administration has as it's hidden agenda. as Gil Scott-Heron said years ago, "We don't need no re-Ron!" as a nation, we need to rise up and tell that fathead that we will not put up with his greedy evil plan to rob everyone in sight! i do not for a New York minute believe that he is 'born again', unless it is into some secret satan-worshiping society that we have no knowledge of. he goes against every principle that Jesus, Buddha and Mohamed stood for. we need to demand some things of our government, for a change. i only wish i knew more about how to accomplish this. right now, i feel as if we are mostly voices "crying in the wilderness". ~paul

[freak1c.livejournal.com]

I just sent an email to the NYT, begging them to research and report the use of this weapon of destruction in their paper. People need to hear this. I know all too well the effects of napalm, and cannot stand for its use in the 21st century.

[oceanic.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason I subscribe to the Nation. If only to see that I'm not insane, that other people feel this way, and that they have the capital of every kind to publish it and make it known. *Who's* got the moral mandate here? Not the damned president.

I'm all for your revised headline, btw.

[librissimma.livejournal.com]

not related directly to your post, but I wanted to let you know that I added you to my friends list. I saw your post on prosicated's page and was interested in your story writing user icon. I then noticed that we have several common interests, but what convinced me to introduce myself was your connection to woodhull. I was unfamiliar to the institute, but was intrigued as Victoria Woodhull is a shirt-tail relative of mine.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Hi there! Good to meet you. How crazy that you're distantly related to Victoria Woodhull herself! The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership is an organization that I'm closely involved with, and that I adore. The website is http://www.woodhull.org, if you want to check it out further.

Thanks for saying hello. I look forward to getting to know you!