Oh my God! I'm a liberal and I'm sick and tired of Cindy Sheehan! Sure we're all for free speech, who isn't? But her high-handed no holds barred way are too much. I was never a fan of Bush's and she was beginning to get on my nerves when he was in office. Now I lived through the 60's so I understand the importance of civil discourse however, I have lost all patience with Sheehan.

It is hard for me to be sympathetic with the trauma most Americans still feel about 911.

What Obama could, but won't do, is to address that trauma head on and admonish the American people for failing to heed 911 for the wake up call that it actually was. We never were invulnerable and never will be. We never had the right to believe in the lie of our invincability. Our hubris as a nation was never a right and American exceptionalism was a lie from the get go, and I do mean from the concept of manifest destiny forward.

Our ambitions to be the best and brightest having morphed into our being the biggest bad asses around has so crippled every claim to virtue that it should be clear that some humbling is in order.

So while we feed the military beast and starve the soul of a once great nation future generations will be left to wonder if the dreams of our fathers were mere fantasies. It used to be the size of our dreams, not the size of our guns that mattered. Shame.

I salute Cindy Sheehan for her protest against the pointless and doomed to failure wars that America is involved in. We only need to look at history and how many nations have failed in the effort to suppress the Afghan people. The same sentiments that doomed Alexander the Great, England and Russia to failure in Afghanistan are working against us, only more so because we are killing so many civilians in Afghanistan.

On top of the prospect of failure there is the cost in dollars and American lives that say that we should fold up our military machine and come home.

Even further there are the moral aspects of killing innocent civilians because it is convenient to ignore the civilians when we target the insurgents.

I am ashamed of America. My family has lived in America more than 500 years and what we are doing now is the worst of that period of time.

Wake up America and do what is right for many, many reasons.

Noam Chomsky was just interviewed on Democracy Now and attested, at length, about the effectiveness of the current anti-war movement. Unlike in the 60's, he said there were mass protests about attacking Iraq before it happened. It took the people back then years to do anything. Her also talks about how the movement has effected what the admin has done since then. There is a powerful movement capable of mobilizing hundreds of thousands around the world. The problem, like Kennedy says, is that the press is not reporting it. Chomsky and Kennedy are both right. What we have in common with the 60s is the number of clueless whiners who won't get off their asses and get out there to see what the anti-war/anti-globalization movements are doing. And you're going to have to go and see for yourselves because the press and other media have stopped doing their jobs.

I could care less who is leading this drive to bring sanity back to a nation apparently addicted to war and killing. We need to look at our priorities, stop killing our children and the children of every nation who has oil.

One year of the pentagon budget would solve every social problem in America and stop world hunger for a decade, and the media has us worked into a frenzy that justifies denial of everything our forefathers and their Christian values held dear.
And as for Health Care? Re-read the preamble to the constitution. Take note of the words just after "provide for the common defense", where it says "promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".