Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Time to stand up and be counted!

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 08:57 PM
Original message
Poll question: Time to stand up and be counted!
Edited on Mon Mar-27-06 08:59 PM by Seabiscuit
Many of us actively protested Bush's invasion of Iraq long before it happened. I for one was out on the streets here in San Diego beginning in the late summer and early fall of 2002, over 6 months prior to the invasion.

Many of us opposed the invasion but did not, for a variety of personal reasons, participate in anti-war demonstrations prior to the invasion.

It took many of us longer to appreciate what was happening... e.g., many believed Saddam actually had chemical and biological weapons and the means to deliver them here and intended to do so, but began waking up during the 6 months after the invasion when no such weapons showed up.

Many may have supported the war until Bush acknowledged Saddam had no WMDs and began changing, over and over again his public excuses for the invasion.

I doubt any genuine DU'ers have always supported Bush's actions and words regarding Iraq.

So. Who are you?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 09:06 PM
Response to Original message
1. Hooray! A vote for blasphemy!
:applause::woohoo:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 09:06 PM
Response to Original message
2. I opposed the War of aggression from the start. There were no protests in
Bu$hland
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 09:08 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. OMG!
"I'm just stuck here down in Crawford with those Texas blues agin'"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
FtWayneBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:01 PM
Response to Original message
4. We turned out 300 people on the courthouse green
here in Ft. Wayne to protest Bush's war before he started it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:20 PM
Response to Original message
5. 2 votes for "What war?"!!! Hoo Hah! n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:26 PM
Response to Original message
6. Marched in S.F. twice prior to March of 2003!
In fact, I marched against Bush in 2001....when there were only 200 of us! I just didn't like the way 2000 went down, and I knew this guy was going to be nothing by trouble for all of us, and for our democracy!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:34 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. Good for you! I suspected the same, but I don't think any of us imagined
Edited on Mon Mar-27-06 10:35 PM by Seabiscuit
back then just how MUCH trouble he would be to us all.

In Michael Moore's Farenheit 9-11, one guy on the inaugural parade route in January, 2001 had it right: he held up a sign saying: "God help us."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Keseys Ghost Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:44 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. I saw it coming the day he signed on-been on the streets since then
And I will be in Atlanta this weekend marching against the war.

When my kid asks, "Who spoke out?", I won't have to look at the floor.


ONWARD!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 01:58 AM
Response to Reply #8
9. Bravo!
I take it you're not the one who voted "I love George Bush". :)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 02:36 AM
Response to Original message
10. I admit I was too carefree at the time.
I was goofing off & having fun in my spare time, before the Iraq war started. I was not incensed enough to do anything about it, I just changed the channel, making it "go away" for the moment.
This administration has gradually made me bitter and jaded, like a cornered animal.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 05:44 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. Well, come on out of your corner and join us on the streets!
Welcome aboard!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 05:47 PM
Response to Original message
12. I opposed the war from the start.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 05:52 PM
Response to Original message
13. Not too late m' DU Munchkins.....
Edited on Tue Mar-28-06 05:59 PM by Catchawave
http://www.april29.org/

Lively planning discussions going on in the New York Forum ! Nothing says Spring in New York City like a Peace Mobilization :)

Edit spelling/
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 05:54 PM
Response to Reply #13
14. And nothin' says lovin' like KKKarl Rove in the oven (set to broil).
:)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
guidod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 06:07 PM
Response to Original message
15. WHAT WAR?
God one, I'm still LOLing!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-29-06 03:03 AM
Response to Reply #15
18. Thanks. I was laughing myself as I was typing it in.
:)
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 06:21 PM
Response to Original message
16. I was waiting for bush to "make the case for war"
I waited and waited. They'd come up with various crapola stories that were debunked on the internets. Then suddenly they started in on the mushroom clouds and the congress was scared to be found soft on terra, or limp. That was as close to making a case for war as bush ever got.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-29-06 03:02 AM
Response to Reply #16
17. What I'll never understand is how so many Congressmen with
law degrees never wondered about the complete lack of any solid evidence to support the Bush regime's various wild claims about Iraq. I've never understood how a single Rep or Senator could vote for the IWR *without* such evidence.

And I'd still like to know what so-called "intelligence" was fed to these representatives of the people by the cabal behind closed doors. Did every critically thinking brain cell in Washington simply shut down during October, 2002???
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-29-06 03:32 AM
Response to Original message
19. I was half way between
once we found out there was no WMDs and Bush being on his third excuse. It was his second excuse, actually, that got me. When he went from WMDs to "war of liberation" I turned.

But I didn't go full out "get him outta there" campaign 2004 mode until I read an article on the net about Gitmo, long before it became public knowledge. That fully and truly de-sheepled me but good.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-29-06 04:16 PM
Response to Reply #19
21. "De-sheepled" - I *like* that. Perfect word to describe the process
one goes through over time shedding the MSM propaganda and searching the net for the true fracts.

It doesn't matter how you get there or how long it takes, so long as you get there.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-29-06 11:09 AM
Response to Original message
20. I was a Junior at UGA - Attended plenty of protests in Athens. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:26 PM
Response to Original message
22. Final kick
Thanks for your participation, folks!

:kick:

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Mon Apr 29th 2024, 12:04 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC