Peace Action West sent me a message about thanking my member of Congress for voting to schedule an end to the war in Afghanistan. I added to the editable letter: Afghanistan is a psychologically traumatized and stunted nation that over the decades has experienced nearly endless invasion and exploitation from more powerful countries, such as Russia, England, and the United States. Further exploitation...

According to Peace Action: The Obama Administration asked Congress for another $83.4 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the House approved the funding with only 60 Representatives voting against it. The funding is now going before the Senate for a vote and we need to build more pressure for an end to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. www.democracyinaction.org The people need to be...

...way of doing things has got to go. We need to practice diplomacy, dialogue, and nonviolence. We need to stop practicing fascism, militarism, imperialism, and violence. In short, sending more troops to Afghanistan and perpetuating this playground bully mentality not to mention insanity is wrong and bad and backward beyond belief. War is always wrong and completely pointless and barbaric. It is so time...

Obama still wants to send more troops to Afghanistan. You can take action on the Peace Action website (not to mention quite a few other places-might I mention WAND and Code Pink, for instance). Obama apparently thinks U.S. troops in Afghanistan can suddenly change from an occupying force to police trainers and welcome guests. According to Kevin Martin, executive director of Peace Action: “an Afghan...

www.groundswellonline.org How screamingly obvious does it have to be that nonviolence, diplomacy, and dialogue are the way to act, not the patriarchal values of violence, barbarity, and institutionalized...the bullies on the world playground. I didn't vote for Obama in order to perpetuate the Evil Empire. (Actually, I voted for Obama to make sure we didn't have another Repugnantcan in the White House.

I received an e-mail from Just Foreign Policy urging me to e-mail my representatives concerning Obama's Bush-like intention to send more troops to Afghanistan. There's a deadline of Wendesday March 11...which is tomorrow. Afghanistan is a traumatized country that has seen constant war over many decades and therefore has no knowledge of another way of doing things. It is a country that needs teachers...