""The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"--Martin Luther King Jr"
This site was started on July 5th, 2005, to mobilize protesters in S.E. Michigan, USA. The space has sense embraced the global peace efforts as it relates to anti-war mesures and on the global war on terror. PLEASE INVITE THIS MYSPACE IF YOU BELIEVE WAR IS NOT THE ONLY ANSWER! The words "STOP THE WAR" contains a simple message that everyone on all sides of the political spectrum can understand and almost everyone can agree to. What has to happen is that the American people and their politicians need to see that there are millions who don't want the war and are willing to raise their voices in public through protests, fliers, guerilla art projects (stencil art for example), pirate radio, and other means -- anything that spreads the message.
Iraqi Civilian Body Count
This is an ongoing human security project which maintains and updates the world’s only independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies. The count includes civilian deaths caused by coalition military action and by military or paramilitary responses to the coalition presence (e.g. insurgent and terrorist attacks). It also includes excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.
We Will Always Support the Troops
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Social Injustice
War is a combination of various social injustices. It is complex issue that has complex answers. The causes of war are many and varied. However, the causes seem to have a common factor; parties clash over differences in beliefs. The war on terror is a campaign against terrorist crime. It is a rhetorical term since there is not a specific person being targeted; by definition it should embrace all terrorists groups; some who are present in the United States. We yet continue to have an aggressive presence in Iraq while places like Darfur, which has been acknowledged to be a humanitarian and human rights tragedy of the first order,remains in peril. The global injustices need to be acted on concurrently with the stance to stop the war since the causes are interrelated. Let's work to stop the war and act to stop the social injustices that are plaguing our world. May peace be with us all.
Social Injustice Issues:
• Agriculture
• AIDS
• Civil Liberties
• Corporate
Responsibility
• Criminal Justice
• Disarmament
• Ecology
• Economic Justice
• Energy
• Equal Opportunity
• Homosexuality and transgender rights
• Government
• Health
• Hunger
• International
Relations
• Global Peace and self-determination
• Poverty
• Racial Justice
• Religious Freedom
• Responsive
Resolutions
• War
• Women's Rights
Peace and Self Government
Peace and self-government is probably the last thing the Neocons want for Iraq because that eliminates the argument for keeping a permanent military base there. As long as US troops stay, the insurgents will have an unbeatable foe to fight, thus perpetuating our argument for remaining. It's a catch-22. The only way we'll find out if the Iraqi people can establish peace is to leave and let them try. The Bush administration can't risk that because it would jeopardize their original objective: to maintain a power wedge in the Middle East. If the U.S. left and things started to get much worse, we (and probably a global coalition) could always return to help stabilize things. But we aren't going to find out until we let them try and it won't happen until our forces leave.
Lets End This War
PTSD: The Silent Killer of War Veterans
"As many as 1 of every 10 soldiers from the war on terror evacuated to the Army's biggest hospital in Europe was sent there for mental problems.
Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital, Col. Rhonda Cornum.
That means about 1,000 soldiers were evacuated for mental problems.
The hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers from the war on terror, with 9,651 from Iraq and the rest from Afghanistan, according to data released by the hospital."
---from www.antiwar.com/casualties----
Vietnam Veterans still deal with the affects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Our soldiers who have fought in this war will inevitably have to deal with the same emotional issues. This war will leave scars on the American people for decades to come.
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