As far as changes go, I can’t say enough about wanting Peace i.e. with Iraq, the impeachment of our President and bringing our young people home.

I want to embody the courage and stamina that I see from those that speak out like the recent comments of Major General John Batista [ret] who comandeered a troop in Iraq. He left the Army in protest because he couldn’t stand what was happening to our troops. He was recently fired from CBS as a consultant.

My hat is off to him! He retires early at a financial cost, gets fired from a consulting job and even declares he’s a die-hard Republican. Yet, he sees it as his duty to speak the truth on behalf of the soldiers.

Can you imagine what that must take? I actually cannot so I asked my husband who happened to be in the Navy for 12 years. He said, “Well, there will be those who see him as a traitor, those that agree with him but can’t/won’t speak out, and those that will join him. The latter being few because of their jrank and holding onto their job.” Things happen to us, but not at the level of press, radio and TV! I say things, but UPI [news service] doesn’t pick them up. *chuckle* So, it is, in comparison, easy to speak out.
He said:
“We need to come to grips with the fact that we went to war with a flawed strategy. This is all about a President who ’s relying almost on a military component of strategy to accomplish the mission in Iraq. Sadly, we are missing the diplomatic, the political, and the economic that are fundamental that are fundamental and required to be successful….Bottom line: We have failed strategy and our President has not mobilized to accomplish the critical work to defeat global terorism. ” You can see the 7 minute blurb on You Tube at the below URL.
http://www.votevets.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=263&Itemid=69

He’s not alone in his thinking. It goes without saying that Bush has no statemanship in his bones.

What do I want my nieces and nephews and their future children to remember? That we marched for peace, wrote letters and worked for the truth in attempts to free them up from the huge debt that they are doing to inherit, from the ravages of war on the environment and, of course, thousands of deaths.

This kind of consciousness has no place at the end of 2007. May our Senate prevail in no more funding.

Well, I had more to say than I thought. Thanks, Johanne. I needed this venue.
When I write next time, I’m tempted to come back as a Canadian. :-)

Hugs.

I think your question is a still a good one:

” I wonder if that is what they’ll say about us 500 years down the track.”

They probably weren’t. That email is largely incorrect:

http://www.history-magazine.com/facts.html