We All Want the Same Thing
A Free Country and Peace
Debora Myers/Ladyfire.com

I’ve been told by people who are my classmates, peers, employers, friends, readership and strangers that I take sides with Saddam and am a “traitor” to America because I am against the preemptive invasion of Iraq. Let’s get one thing straight. I do not support Saddam. I have had obscenities screamingly hurled at me, (one teacher even grabbed me, in a rage brought on my mentioning “peace vigil.”) One of my classmates, this chubby, always smiling, sweet-looking guy said “I hope the terrorists drop a bomb on your house first!” Wow! That coming from a fellow American! I wish him no harm. I wish no harm to anyone wherever they are from. I do support diplomatic measures to take Saddam out of power. I will also work on measures to ensure that GWB is not our next president by campaigning against him. I have a constitutionally given right to do so.

How can people be so blind and so easily brainwashed into thinking that invading a country and occupying it is right? How can people believe that killing and maiming innocent people is ok? They think it is ok for us to kill the Iraqi people, but not ok for Sadamm to do so? Is there logic in that? Not much thinking going on here with our fat and spoiled people, although, a third of us know what the US government wants from Iraq. They want to push their crusade. Bush even slipped and said “crusade” in a speech to "the American People." This war is about power, domination and greed. The majority of the American people do not read, so they get their news from the total propagandized TV news. They are not seeing the realities of the war. No bloody babies on American TV. That wouldn’t make us look good, now would it?

I do not support Saddam or any of the multitudes of demented dictators in this world. I am a PEACE activist. That means I work to educate, dispel fear-based reactions; the knee jerk effect of eye for an eye. I believe in dialogue and diplomacy. I simply wish to speak and work for peace. Is that not what we all want? I think we just differ in the way peace should be attained.

I only wish to exercise my constitutionally given rights of freedom of speech. We best exercise these rights while we still can, because the powers that be are working hard to chip away at our rights with the Patriot Act and the Patriot Act II. Check them out. If someone suspected me of terrorist connections, (Which I do not have by the way) I could be locked up, without access to a lawyer, without hope or my constitutionally given right to a lawyer. That is what is happening with many Islamic Americans or Arab visitors or “sympathizers” in question. No Lawyers? No way to defend yourself? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Is this right? With the empty headed "Texacutioner" as president, we are experiencing, on a grand scale, the darkest times since the genocide of The American Indians. Iran and Syria are next on the list to be attacked and dominated.

I am not the only one on this planet who does not support this war. 80 percent of the rest of the peoples on this planet that have an opinion on this war on Iraq are against it. I have educated myself on the people behind the scenes in our government. Educate yourselves about: Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, Elliot Abrahams, James Woolsey. Also do a little checking into the Rev. Sun Myung Moon who owns the Washington Times. These people will tell you what the war is all about. These are the scary, far right neo-conservatives that are controlling the government of the US. Don’t take my word for it. Get out there and do your own research.

Most of us want Peace and freedom, to be allowed to live our lives as we deem. Bombing our way to peace is unjustified and makes no sense. Bombing civilians into freedom is not moral or right. It is simply an act of aggression pushed by those men behind our government, manipulating our air-headed president and our people into doing their dirty deeds for their own sick purposes of World Domination.

Do your homework.

May Peace, Love and Light Prevail!

A sickened and in shock American,

Debora Myers editor & cofounder-
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editor JPG- credit to David Rollins, Portland Oregon
bloody Iraqi baby-Credit to AP (Associated Press)

About Debora Myers

Debora Myers is editor and co-founder of Ladyfire.com. She is a graduate of the Self Heal School of Herbal Medicine in San Diego, CA. She has also studied extensively with Traditional American Indian Healers and been actively involved in the civil rights and environmental movements. Debora is a life long student, constantly updating and educating herself concerning the holistic healing arts and sexuality. She lives with her husband and two children.