Text of reading below: A original reading & commentary about the American's people inaction in the face of the unjust war in Iraq & the More

Text of reading below: A original reading & commentary about the American's people inaction in the face of the unjust war in Iraq & the unethical & dangerous policies of our government... I am starting this channel to begin a dialogue about the state of our nation and the state of our consciousence. Because something is deeply wrong...I don't know why exactly American's stand paralyzed while the government institutes policy that do not represent our beliefs as a people or are vision of the world we want to live in. But, perhaps, it is because we have lost our vision and our unity as a people. Perhaps, it is because we have become bitter from the loss of our own dreams, that we can spare little empathy for the plight of our neighbors neighbors & spare little thought for the implications of our government's policies around the globe... What has become of us? What has become of us, when as a people, we can allow a President to justify the slaying of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq to cloak our country's actions under the FALSE notion of fighting 'them' over there instead instead of over here? When did we become a people who would allow murder under a justification of such cowardice & arrogance? As if war & death & slaugher should be endured by others for our battles, even if those 'others' had no connection to it, in the first place. British estimates believe over 600,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in this war. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND. This nation is so fond of propping itself under a Christian banner & a righteous God, but ignores the most basic tenet of Thou Shall Not Kill translating it to mean - thou shall not kill an American. And, when did supporting our military become silence in the face of tyranny and unjust war? It was known BEFORE the war that the intelligence used to justify an invasion into Iraq was dubious at best. Indeed,most Americans were against the invasion of Iraq until it occurred, & then, out of fear of not 'supporting our troops' rallied around the policy lest we be labeled unpatriotic, forgetting that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Truly supporting our military would have been fighting tooth & nail to prevent them from ever having been unnecessarily place in harm's way - & ever placed in the position of carrying out unjust orders from a President who does not operate in the realm of reality or truth. I say this now, for it is long past time that we demand an end to this lunacy. Our Congress is bending yet again to the whim of the madman we call 'President' who would not even accomodate 'non-binding' time lines for the removal of troops from Iraq. They fail in their duty in oversight of this administration because we have failed in our duty as citizens to oversee Congress. How many of us actually know the voting records and sponsorships of bills of your Senators & Congress Person? Do you even know their names? Have your ever called them? Ever demanded them to act as representatives of the American people instead of corporate lobbyists and the military industrial complex? We are often so indignant, so angry at government, forgetting that WE are & MUST be the government, & democracy can only work with active participation of its citizenry. We resign our fate before we even begin to fight. Believing we are powerless, we become powerless. And, be it our apathy or righteous indignation against our government, it has become one & the same. An excuse not to act, not to be responsible, not to participate in changing things for the better. And, that must begin with having the courage to seek truth & then speak it, openly, & without fear of the recriminations of those who would suppress our rights and freedoms. Killing is not just because we perpetrate it. War does not qualify as just because America implements it. Right now, an atrocity is occurring in all our names. We all have blood on our hands. We are financing the killing & our silence is complicity and accomplice to murder. Why do we allow this to continue? What has become of us?
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General Mentalist vid. Music is DC Talk "What Have We Become" Clips are from CBS Not mine, I just dited it.