the dark edge

...from 9/11 to Katrina, the prospects for presidential truthtelling are dimming. He comes by his pathological insensitivity and pharisitic tendency honestly. Cindy was right to question his authority, and still is--why should we keep sending our children off to a war predicated on falsehood and fabrication? What logic would continue an endless war to 'honor' the dead? For what noble cause do our country's men and women, sent in harm's way by a headless commander-in-chief, die in Iraq? Not for peace--there is already a civil war going on in Iraq, and it will continue whether or not our troops are here or there. And it's not to catch Osama, because he is a family friend and we let him escape with the rest of the Taliban on our own planes out of Afghanistan. And it's not to remove WMDs because there weren't any. And it's not to 'keep the terrorists busy so they won't come here' because that's a totally brainless assertion. These words and phrases are mouth-fed from Karl and Dick to George, and the media plays it so often that people do not think. They believe it must be true. What will it take to get us to reclaim our own minds and think for ourselves? What will it take for us to reclaim our spiritual freedom and heal the communal soul? One woman might be enough. Perhaps these simple candlelight vigils started by one mother for peace are laughable to the D.C. crowd, but there is something happening out here, and you can feel a turning ....