Sean Penn speaks for World Can't Wait

whidbey

The arrogant, the misguided, the cowards would argue that an immediate pull-out of our troops from Iraq would inspire lack of confidence and the lost credibility of the United States. President Bush and his functionaries indeed have lost enormous credibility for the perception of our country internationally. Perhaps more damaging than that, they have created the greatest cultural, religious, and political divide domestically since our own Civil War.

We the people of the United States have a unique opportunity. We can show each other and the world that what the Bush administration claims is their mission is not ours. And, by leading our country as a citizenry and demanding of our government an immediate end to our own military and profit investments in Iraq, display for the entire world that democracy is a government of the people. What more powerful message to send the world than that we ourselves can choose – in policy, in peace, and in humanitarian support.

In fascism, one serves the State. Let’s show the world that with democracy, we can make the State do our bidding, and that such bids would not be the blind ones, given exclusively to the friends of power. But rather, the domain of the people of freedom everywhere. This is an administration that advocates torture, deceives the public, spends billions of dollars on a failed war. This is an administration where in the year of Katrina, Exxon Mobil claimed the highest profit margin in the history of world business. It is an administration that belittles, demeans, deceives, and indeed kills our brothers, our sisters, our sons, and our daughters.

At the U.S./Mexico border, we panic at the notion of illegal entry, without blinking an eye as our elderly line up every Saturday morning with wheelchairs, walkers, canes and joint pain, queued up in the desert heat to enter Mexico where they can purchase affordable medication. In the human family, this President is indeed pushing his wheelchair-bound grandmother down the stairs with a smile on his face. Everyone knows that these are true statements. Everyone. Some are ashamed of where they’ve put their support in the past, their passivity in the present, with the courage of their minds and hearts at bay. What an exciting thing to reverse this as one America and show the world who wears the pants in this house.

Stand up as an American and join World Can’t Wait and those demonstrating this Thursday, October 5th.

Out of Iraq. And out with Bush.

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3027&Itemid=223#penn

rigneyclan

whidbey wrote:

The arrogant, the misguided, the cowards would argue that an immediate pull-out of our troops from Iraq would inspire lack of confidence and the lost credibility of the United States. President Bush and his functionaries indeed have lost enormous credibility for the perception of our country internationally. Perhaps more damaging than that, they have created the greatest cultural, religious, and political divide domestically since our own Civil War.

We the people of the United States have a unique opportunity. We can show each other and the world that what the Bush administration claims is their mission is not ours. And, by leading our country as a citizenry and demanding of our government an immediate end to our own military and profit investments in Iraq, display for the entire world that democracy is a government of the people. What more powerful message to send the world than that we ourselves can choose – in policy, in peace, and in humanitarian support.

In fascism, one serves the State. Let’s show the world that with democracy, we can make the State do our bidding, and that such bids would not be the blind ones, given exclusively to the friends of power. But rather, the domain of the people of freedom everywhere. This is an administration that advocates torture, deceives the public, spends billions of dollars on a failed war. This is an administration where in the year of Katrina, Exxon Mobil claimed the highest profit margin in the history of world business. It is an administration that belittles, demeans, deceives, and indeed kills our brothers, our sisters, our sons, and our daughters.

At the U.S./Mexico border, we panic at the notion of illegal entry, without blinking an eye as our elderly line up every Saturday morning with wheelchairs, walkers, canes and joint pain, queued up in the desert heat to enter Mexico where they can purchase affordable medication. In the human family, this President is indeed pushing his wheelchair-bound grandmother down the stairs with a smile on his face. Everyone knows that these are true statements. Everyone. Some are ashamed of where they’ve put their support in the past, their passivity in the present, with the courage of their minds and hearts at bay. What an exciting thing to reverse this as one America and show the world who wears the pants in this house.

Stand up as an American and join World Can’t Wait and those demonstrating this Thursday, October 5th.

Out of Iraq. And out with Bush.

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3027&Itemid=223#penn

Nice.

I would be a part of this, but Reno is the closest one and that's pretty far. Plus, I don't have a car.

rarghrargh-brownstar

Thanks. Was gonna post this.

Also, go to Google Video and type in: World Can't Wait Pre-rally rally Union Square




Malachy McCourt, Reno, Craig Murray (UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan) Mark Ruffalo (delivering special message from Sean Penn) Debra Swift, Olympia Dukakis and Bill Goodman (Constitutional Rights attorney)

rarghrargh-brownstar

Reasons:
1. Providing false information to Congress about WMDs in Iraq.
2. Providing false testimony to the effect that Iraq was a threat to the U.S.
3. Withholding information about the cost of the Medicare bill.
4. Blowing the cover of an intelligence operative.
5. Imprisoning suspects for months in Gitmo on flimsy or zero evidence.
6. Outsourcing torture of terror suspects, again with flimsy or zero evidence.
7. Neglecting terrorism in favor of Iraq and missile defense in the first eight months of 2001.
8. Tasking the Secretary of State to go before the UN and lie like a rug.
9. Using resources of the IRS and Treasury Department for political propaganda.
10. Diverting money appropriated by Congress for Afghanistan to planning the Iraq invasion.
11. Withholding information about the cost in terms of money and personnel deployment of the Iraq invasion.
12. Under-provisioning and manning the Iraq invasion out of political considerations.
13. Failing to provide sufficient manpower to establish order in Iraq, post-invasion, leading to widespread misery and casualties all around.
14. NSA warrantless surveillance
15. Sabotage of the U.S. revenue system, generating unsustainable deficits.
16. Destroying rights of public employees in the Department of Defense.
17. Justifyling Torture
18. Leaking of classified information
19. Hurricane Katrina
20. "My Pet Goat"
21. "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorist"

The list goes on and on

Bush lied and our troops have died.
Bush lied and his administration spied.
Bush lied and our liberties were denied.
Bush lied and freedoms were circumscribed.
Bush lied and our laws he did not abide.
Face it Bush does nothing without having first lied.


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