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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:51 AM
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Anyone else feel like a coward?
for not doing more? this war is serious business

especially when thinking of MLK, I feel like a coward sometimes....
remember civil disobedience?
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:52 AM
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1. All the time
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:58 AM
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9. damn
I hate this
:-(
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:04 AM
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13. Me too.
:(

Me too
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:54 AM
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2. I've taken to the streets
I am just tired of doing it by myself
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Monkeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:56 AM
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4. So don't find a vet org. that is democratic
You don't need to be a vet just show up. You find you are not alone
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:03 AM
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12. I'm the wife of a vet so I do qualify
but that is not the point.

I have taken to the streets many a times, wiht five, ten more people. The best we could muster was 100

Why?

This damn war has not affected people personally, and until it does... (we need to expand the military according to our fearless leader's tonight speech, and you tell me where they are gonna find volunteers for that one) people will continue to watch American Idol...

Yep sad statement.

At least they showed up to vote, but...
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:57 AM
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7. I hear ya
thousands of people getting arrested doing NVCD would be absolutely appropriate
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:55 AM
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3. I'd like to think that our AWOL asshole war criminal president would
but I'm sure he doesn't.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:56 AM
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5. Every day since December 12, 2000.
Edited on Thu Jan-11-07 12:57 AM by TahitiNut
:shrug:
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:57 AM
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6. Anyone here NOT?
I know I do. Often.

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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:57 AM
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8. I'm just tired.
I was shot in Vietnam and clubbed in the streets of America while opposing the war I fought in. I campaigned for McGovern. I'm still pushing, still active in the local Dems Sometimes I feel like a coward. Mostly I just wish there were more young people out there with me.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:04 AM
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14. You too
one yong kid we helped raised said the same thing I have said for a while... the only thing that will get his friends to pay attentiion is a draft
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:12 AM
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16. yea
I am in my mid fifties, been a peace activist since the Vietnam war
a bit tired too

it wasn't the draft for me, but maybe that is what put the fire under some people's butts
:shrug:
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:39 AM
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19. Same here...just tired....

seems like its been a looong battle......

:hi::hug::loveya:
DR
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:13 AM
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27. hi!
hi DR
:hi: :loveya: :hug:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:16 AM
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28. do you ever think bush wants to "break" the American peoples will
to fight back, very possibly with this criminal.
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BlackVelvet04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:18 AM
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29. I'm with you.....
I'm just tired. It seems we have to keep fighting the same issues over and over and over again. Who would have thought that 30 years later we would be fighting for abortion rights, birth control, and to end another ill advised war AGAIN?
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:40 AM
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20. Man.....what can I say?
I know what you mean.....

:hi::loveya::hug:
DR
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:08 AM
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22. Hi DR.
Haven't seen ya around in a while. :loveya:

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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 12:59 AM
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10. the house is planning on cutting funds. Late news!
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:01 AM
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11. Every day.
What could we have done differently?
What can we do now?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:08 AM
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15. Join us in DC! I'm living in TX and I'm going. PM me! nt
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:37 AM
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18.  going to DC
also :-)

www.wncpeacecoalition.org
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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:34 AM
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17. K&R
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specimenfred1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:48 AM
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21. Nope, just abused
It's stupid to walk right into a trap set for the average person/prey.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:09 AM
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23. A tired coward.
Tired of contacting representatives while America continues this collision course.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:11 AM
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25. yup, that I have been doing also
no doubt thousands of calls and letters by now

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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:10 AM
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24. of course
personal risk makes my tummy hurt
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 10:11 AM
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26. American people have not reached that point yet of, it's either him or me?
our security is definitely in jeopardy, there must be numbers of the population in the streets of America right now. The world is watching.
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