My Five Year Old Kid vs. Their Five Year Old War

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:27:04 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks:

"I do not want to tell my kid when she's ten: this war has been going all of your life. I don't want to tell her that next year! I want to tell her, yes, there was a war for the first five years of your life, but then people had had enough! They knew voting for a fake anti-war candidate wasn't going to end the war, they knew watching TV and bitching about it wasn't going to end the war, and they finally voted with their feet. I want to tell my kid that on the fifth anniversary of the war, people said, ENOUGH! And hit the streets in San Francisco and in over forty other cities around the country, and reinvigorated an anti-war movement that brought the war to an end."

Clip Source: mrzine.monthlyreview.org

Y'all remember five years ago? Were any of you on the streets with Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) in downtown San Francisco five years ago?

I wasn't. I was not on the streets because I had a brand-new baby who needed to eat every two hours, so I couldn't risk arrest. I spent the day volunteering in the legal office, taking calls from folks in the streets.

That baby is five years old now.

This war has been going on for almost her entire life.

And it's not just Iraq that is suffering. Iraq Vets Against the War said, "For every bomb dropped on Baghdad, a bomb explodes on the Gulf Coast." And they're right; all the resources used for the war are resources stolen from communities. Where are those trillions coming from? From schools, from publicly-funded health care, from basic infrastructure and human needs. What could our communities do with 2.8 trillion dollars?

Tags: iraq war, war costs, humanity, dasw, anti-war

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My Five Year Old Kid vs. Their Five Year Old War