OurFuture.org Blogs: Victoria Wolf

Urgent, new direction needed.

Victoria Wolf — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:19:59 -0700

... and the war profiteers are laughing all the way to their offshore accounts.

Our dead and sickened, and their dead and sickened are going to be on this nation's conscience for a long long time ... this 'never ending war' was not necessary!!!

Invading Iraq was illegal, immoral, horrific, and really stupid ... even more outrage is appropriate, in that these young fathers, and mothers, and child soldiers, who had yet to experience adulthood ... whose lives were wasted! ... were cannon fodder for what??? Control of resources? ... that were not ours? That surely is a crime that needs to be solved, and the folks responsible held truly accountable, in a public forum, and in a timely fashion.

My memory is still intact, and I followed the protests, when the build up to invasion was gaining traction, and MILLIONS of people protested in this nation, and millions more, in almost all major cities, all over the world! Millions were screaming how wrong it was ... too many were not listening. I am very, very sad, but not very sympathetic, as regards to those who went ahead, regardless of what the people wanted, with a trumped up invasion of another sovereign nation, which did not attack us!

After 9II many, in many nations, people did say ... 'after a tragedy like that ... we are ALL Americans' ... and now most people, in most nations ... even our friends, can't stand us, and a lot of them really hate us ... and they are going to hate us for a long, long time.

This blow to the human family, did not have to happen ... special forces, properly trained, could have tracked down the actual perpetrators ... we have satellites that can read my license plates ... all of this did not need to happen ... 4 million Iraqi refugees ... 2 million in country displaced and another 2 million ... mostly in Syria ... and we are not even talking to the Syrians!!! ... yet, their economy must bear the burden of our actions! The amount of widows and orphans created by our bombing runs surely must be immoral ... the amount of dead, we do not even count!!! ... but many sources who do count, report figures in the millions!!! Now there is some shock and awe!

To me ... it is obscene that any of our children, or theirs, needed to die, or be blown apart, physically or mentally!!!

A serious mistake was made ... continuing down that same road is insanity, or criminal ... I would say both. As a civilized nation, we must accept accountability, vow to follow our own and international laws, and immediately chart a new course into the direction of the principles we so love to profess.

Freedom, justice, equality, a beacon of hope, and light for the world ... we need to 'walk our talk' ... as one of America's, possibly most honest politician, Dennis Kucinich, has repeatedly said, and I wholehearted agree.

Letter of support to Winter Soldiers

Victoria Wolf — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:48:59 -0700

re: suicide rates

http://warcomeshome.org/
wintersoldier@kpfa.org

Thank you so much.

The truth does matter, and what we have sown we will, as a nation, reap. We must face our deeds, and be held accountable, if we are every to move forward and hold our heads up as a nation, and lead our children into the next generation.

Just wanted to say THANK YOU to all involved trying to get 'truth' on the table, and with all my heart, support the pleas to help ALL of our veteran's ... my heart breaks for everyone ... that we are still discussing this is truly unbelievable ... will we ever become civilized?

The suicides by our Veteran's, at any time in their lives, should be added to the war 'daily casualty' counts ... how can they not be included???

Make it about the issues.

Victoria Wolf — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:34:43 -0700

Issues, Issues, Issues, that affect all the American people, and our relationship with the world we live in ... this is what we need to be about.

The question seems to be ... can any of our candidates, coherently ... with authoritative inspiration, in the 'now' .. express the platform, we agree to run this nation on at our conventions ... updated frequently by letters, emails, and protests of the people represented?

Whether Obama or Hillary are right brained or left ... like looking at pictures, or doing soduki ... well, seems like a personal thing to them, and their families that have to personally live with them. We are not hired to judge them on their personal lives, but on whether they can stand up and express the viewpoint of the American people ... the direction the Nation is moving, the plans to be executed, the laws to be followed, and our standings on the welfare of the planet.

The president is just one human being, supposedly expressing the 'will of the people' ... and a good one can think on 'his/her' feet, at any interview, at anytime, and know what the government under them is doing, and be intelligent enough to know, if what is expressed is true to the 'contract with the people' that they signed up for

... it is up to us, and our responsibility to let the government know our will ... a government by, for, with THE PEOPLE.

We abdicate our own interests, when we keep wasting time on individual personal identity critiques. Short if whether or not a law was broken ... it is none of our business!

Talking about personal issues, hashing and rehashing, is irrelevant to the running of our nation ... and wastes a lot of time ... geeeeeesssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!