We're still letting our sons and brothers be killed in Iraq. So a 7 p.m. vigil will be held next Saturday Dec. 18 at the intersection of Hollywood and Highland.
How about something more blunt for the president - and anyone else in Congress who'll help deliver it: Mr. Bush, get your tiny, know-nothing head out of your privileged, never-served-in-combat ass and enlist the United Nations' help in peacekeeping operations to cool the conflict and restore order - before we kill another 1,200 U.S. troops and 100,000 Iraqis.
If you saw this week's obits in the Times, you learned about how these young Californian guys died:
I have friends that just saw another 300 of them lined up in the Atlanta airport in camo ready to ship out to the front - peach-fuzz kids playing nervously with their GameBoys and cellphones, laughing like they were waiting for class to begin.
Wish the war would go away? It won't, until we all yell loud enough to be heard.
The complexity of Iraq's religious conflicts, the growth of terrorism as a military tool and our government's pigheaded standoffishness regarding coalition-building virtually ensure that Iraq War II will make our long, bloody tour in Vietnam look like a simple disagreement between capitalists and communists.
The Bush administration has already proven it doesn't really give a rat's ass about U.S. casualties and it couldn't care less about the rest of the world's opinions on how to end it.
It's going to take relentless pressure from all of us to persuade our arrogant lame-duck leaders not to dawdle towards some sort of non-solution between now and that fine day in 2009(!) when they get the hell out of the White House.
Write your senator or congressperson. Work for MoveOn. Go to Hollywood and Highland and light a candle and stop traffic 10 days from now. Get mad and stay mad until it ends.
