The anti-war protesters are demanding that the Congress pass a binding resolution that will bring home the troops or else:
Empty threats! Where else are you going to go? The Congress will not make a binding resolution because it won't do any good, they have no control over the troops levels or this war except for oversight (which means they can harass the Generals and the Secretary of Defense) and budget.Actor Sean Penn said lawmakers will pay a price in the 2008 elections if they do not take firmer action than to pass a nonbinding resolution against the war, the course Congress is now taking.
"If they don't stand up and make a resolution as binding as the death toll, we're not going to be behind those politicians," he said. Actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins also spoke.
Hanoi Jane hasn't learned anything new in 30 years:
"Silence is no longer an option," Fonda said to cheers from the stage on the National Mall. The actress once derided as "Hanoi Jane" by conservatives for her stance on Vietnam said she had held back from activism so as not to be a distraction for the Iraq anti-war movement, but needed to speak out now.You want to talk about hurbris how about facing the fact that your efforts resoluted in the deaths of millions? How about the country abandoning the people we had sworn to protect? And will you face what will happen if we leave this war in the state it is in now? Do you think you'll face the fact that you will be responsible for the violence if we leave.
She drew parallels to the Vietnam War, citing "blindness to realities on the ground, hubris ... thoughtlessness in our approach to rebuilding a country we've destroyed."
Everyone knows what would happen and yet the left won't face it. If they end this war, the mess will be on their head (and don't bother leaving comments that say that it's all Bush's fault since we went to war because he lied, I won't even respond).
Updated: And then there's this:
Organizers said the biggest challenge facing the anti-war movement today is how to hold together a loose coalition of groups with divergent agendas
using celebrities who peaked in popularity 10 to 30 years ago.
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