A promise has been kept. Where were you and what were you doing when the bombs started to fall...

[Hekate]

... on Baghdad?

I was driving to my local Vets for Peace meeting the night Baby Caligula pumped his fist in exhilaration that the bombs had begun to fall on Baghdad. I was reciting like a mantra "God damned son of a bitch."

F**k Bush/Cheney to the depths of Hell forever.

F**k Bush/Cheney for their lies and their "Mission Accomplished," for the dead and the maimed and the heartbroken. :cry: May they reside in the bowels of the Hell they (or at least Bushie) so piously claimed to believe in. :grr:

I thank the Triple Goddess that this part is at least -- at last -- over.

Hekate

[monmouth]

1. These soldiers are worried about their future and I don't blame them.

If they don't stay in the military will they have jobs to come home to? Just thinking out loud here..

[deminks]

7. A very good question.

I do not have an answer.

[deminks]

2. I was at work, with a free live video of Shock and Awe on my puter

I was so angry and so upset. I couldn't understand why we were going to Iraq. I remember Bush saying days or weeks before "And they threatened to kill my Dad." I knew then that were weren't any WMD, or any noble cause. I will remember that day always, like where I was when I learned that John Kennedy was dead, and Bobby, and Martin. Same sort of sinking feeling.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I was here on DU, feeling sick to my stomach.

I honestly never thought that Bush* would get away with invading Iraq. From everything I had seen, heard and read, it made no sense to me. ;(

[cally]

4. In SF at an anti-war street protest

Thousands of people had spontaneously gathered to protest the war. After I left the rally and could finally hear my phone I found out my teen had been arrested in the same protest. She had organized a school walk out to head to the rally. I headed back to the police station to get her out.

[jaxx]

5. I was watching it on TV......and I was shocked.....

but there was no awe. It was 'my gawd what has he done?'

This day is long overdue...........and I'm so glad it's here.

[whyverne]

6. I'll never forget. There was a major fire in my town that night

and sirens were blaring up and down the valley while I watched the shock and awe on TV. It all blended together into a very surreal and scary experience.

[Arctic Dave]

8. Sitting in the conference room at Schlumberger's North Slope facility.

[d_r]

9. I was in Okinawa

At Kadena air base. Hoping that I was still going to be able to take my flight home in 2 days, because the base was on lock down (and I was).

[8 track mind]

10. I was sitting in a resturaunt in Houston Texas

It was being shown on live TV and a whole bunch of middle aged overweight white guys started toasting, saying god bless GWB. I had to leave. It just made me sick.

[coffeenap]

11. Crying in front of our tv- nt

[derby378]

12. At work, receiving the news from my wife via e-mail

ChickMagic was crying her eyes out and telling me "This administration needs to go. Now."

All we ever wanted was for the occupation to end. It seems like we're going to have to wait another year and a half at the very least for all of our troops to leave Iraq and come home.

[Hekate]

13. VFP Chapter 54 met, and all of those guys were somber. WW II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam...

... even one journalist who claimed CIA connections. Collectively they'd been there and seen it all.

Some of them had no experience of opposing their government before Bush and the MSM started to ramp up the propaganda for invasion of Iraq, but this was so unjust and such a lie that they could not remain silent. Some were long-time veterans of peaceful protest against wars, believing the country they had served in uniform had to be better than that. All were feeling terrible distress. All wanted to make a plan -- what to do now?

Throughout that year we continued our weekly protest marches, we liaised with other groups in the community, held town hall meetings. Finally, as the American death count reached 300, a man from the community, a carpenter by trade, hammered 300 crosses together and planted them on the beach by a busy tourist wharf. Chapter 54 embraced him and his crosses, and so found their signature project, one that has been copied around the country.

What will they be doing this Sunday, I wonder. Smiling, I hope, seeing the end of one project is in sight, even while the other projects roll on.

Hekate

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

http://www.vfpsb.org/

[Hekate]

14. Kick

:kick:

[tavalon]

15. Have we left military advisors?

That didn't work out very well in Vietnam.

[Hekate]

17. Military advisors were the *beginning* in Vietnam. When Obama restarts the draft...

... let me know.

Hekate

[seattleblue]

16. It is not over.

If you want to bury you head in the sand to make you feel better then go do it.

[Hekate]

18. Did I say it was?

"I thank the Triple Goddess that this part is at least -- at last -- over."

"This part" implies there are other parts, and there is no sand in my hair.

Hekate

[AtomicKitten]

19. Witnessing 'shock and awe' violate International Law. nt

[Dawson Leery]

20. On my way home from work.