D.C. Peace Rally Provides Nuggets to Help Carry On Against the Bush Regime

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�We are not going away until this illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq is over, and you [Rove] are sent back to the depths of whatever slimy, dark, and loathsome place you came from,� Sheehan wrote. �I may be a clown, Karl, but you are about to be indicted.�

If Kerry had answered Rove with such a clear response, he would have won Ohio and the election last year, although he still would have likely conceded.

In another Truthout column on her arrest, Sheehan noted, �Karl Rove [besides just being a very creepy man] outted a CIA agent and was responsible for endangering many of our covert agents worldwide. Dick Cheney's old company is reaping profits beyond anyone's wildest imaginations in their no-bid contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Orleans. John Negroponte's activities in South America are very shady and murderous. Rumsfeld and Gonzales are responsible for illegal and immoral authorization, encouragement and approval of torture. Not to mention, violating Geneva Conventions, torture endangers the lives of our service men and women in Iraq. Along with the above-mentioned traitors, Condi lied through her teeth in the insane run-up to the invasion. The list of crimes this administration has committed is extensive, abhorrent, and unbelievable. What is so unbelievable is that WE were arrested for exercising our first amendment rights, and these people are running free to enjoy their lives of crime and to wreak havoc on the world.�

She seeks to challenge the $75 "demonstrating without a permit" fine. And Camp Casey D.C. plans to remain under the Washington Monument until the troops return home.

Meanwhile, those on the pro-Iraqi war side staged a rally in between these actions that could only muster up a pathetic few hundred people. Most were obviously ill informed, such as Antia Grater, who told the Washington Post that the U.S. troops in Iraq are �stopping the war on terror at the source."

Newsflash: Even Bush finally had to admit that he lied about saying Saddam had a role in the Sept. 11 terrorism acts.

I don't know if anything will really get through to Bush, who was in Colorado and Texas on this weekend, supposedly "monitoring" the response to Hurricane Rita, which means it was just another excuse for yet another vacation. When I started on a two-year, 7,000-mile march across two continents in 1984, I didn't know if anything would get through to Ray Gun, and it wasn't much longer before the Berlin Wall fell.

I do know that all empires eventually fall. And events like the one on Sept. 24 can only speed that process, as they help build ripples that turn into stronger streams.

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