As much as I didn't want to drive to Augusta on a Saturday, I had to go and add my presence to the peace march and rally there yesterday. I feel terrible about what my country is about to do to the people of Iraq and I can only avoid complicity by voicing protest. 2500-3000 people were there in the steady rain. That's a sizable crowd for central Maine. A total spectrum of ages. One little boy carried a sign he'd made himself that said "War is bad for Animals." Many people there with experience in war protests of 30 years ago. Today's anti-war movement has been able to gear up faster because of email and the web, stuff we didn't have 30 years ago. I think it's important to get some of your news from non-corporate network media. The photo on the right came from Maine IndyMedia. I put a photo of the Unity College contingent at this week's UnityMaine.org page.
"Immoral" is not a word I often use, but the coming war is deeply immoral. Bush's insane war policy appears to be totally about oil, about grabbing the last deep source of oil and dividing the spoils among his corporate buddies. We will kill many thousands of innocent Iraq people and never get Saddam Hussein. It has nothing to do with fighting terrorism. Saddam is a secular dictator, hated by Islamic fundamentalists. It has nothing to do with Iraq's having weapons of mass destruction. Bush doesn't want the facts from U.N. Inspectors like Scott Ritter, he wants the war for oil, the war for election politics.
I hope others of my friends and family are making their protests heard as well. Please Check In with your thoughts, observations, rants, counter opinions, etc.
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