There should be hundreds of thousands of demonstrators camping

[Benbow]

on the White House lawns by now (yes, even in winter)!

The above is quoted from the Bush Out blog, and I pose the question here because I, too, don't understand why Americans appear to feel helpless to do anything about the Bush administration's headlong gallop back to the Dark Ages, taking your country with them.

At the very least, there should be 6,000 people camped on the White House lawns, each with a placard bearing the picture and name of a soldier who has died in Iraq in the last two years - in Iraq, on the way from Iraq to a hospital in Germany, on the way from a hospital in Germany to the US. They died for what? And I am not including the great many who have returned maimed and permanently psychologically damaged.

The other countries of the world are turning their backs on America because your administration cannot be trusted. Yes, we let our cities be shut down when your President visits, and we let your national representatives give vacuous and meaningless speeches, and we smile and smile, but ... we are excluding America from anything that your administration could screw up. And the hypocrisy of Bush and co is astounding. All around the world, jaws hit the floor when your President - who has some 140,000 troops occupying Iraq - demanded that the 14,000 Syrian troops should leave Lebanon. The rest of the world can still hardly believe that the Italian journalist and three secret servicemen did survive having 400-500 American rounds fired at their car. There is nothing casual or accidental about firing that many rounds: America wanted everyone in that car to die. In the event, only one did. The world is now agog to hear what it was that, it would seem, the American administration did not want the journalist, now safely back in Room, ever to be able to tell us. About napalm in Fallujah, possibly.

[DebJ]

1. I hope to be in DC on March 19th to protest.

Bushie is so busy destroying us in so many ways, he is making it harder and harder for me to remember the war.

We will be a feudal society by the time of the next election.

[Benbow]

3. Yay - give Bush something by which to remember the Ides of March

Well, the Ides of March plus a couple of days.

[Mistress Quickly]

2. I don't think that many rounds were fired

Have you seen the pics?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3239906

[Benbow]

5. Something may have got lost in translation

from Italian. But I will wait to see. Do we know that those pics are of that car, not another car? (I cannot help remembering that, during the election, a picture of people allegedly queueing to vote was later shown to have been a picture of people queuing to submit to the humiliation of having their identity checked some where near Fallujah.)

[Benbow]

6. Then there was that pic purporting to be of an Iranian nuclear facility -

- published recently on, I think it was, the CNN web site - which one sharp-eyed person was able to demonstrate was actually a cropped version of a photograph of a nuclear establishment in Korea.

That is the ugliest side of the controlled media in the US. Let's show the public a picture of a Korean nuclear facility and pretend that it is in Iran, to help get the public to support Bush's drive to bomb Iran.

[Wright Patman]

4. Napalm is not a problem

for the 51 percent of Americans who believe we should just "nuke 'em all."

And the list of "'em" is ever expanding. It may include Italy next. France is already justifiably destined for radioactive rubble in the minds of the 51 percent.

What we have here is a slight majority of the population of an "advanced" country afflicted with a psychosis not dissimilar to that which inhabited the warped minds of those who supported Hitler.

[Benbow]

7. Let's pray then that America becomes bankrupt and runs out of the money

- and loses too many personnel in Iraq - before it gets around to nuking France or Italy.