It’s about damn time!

“There is only one thing that moves government on any level: stark fear.

“And if you will recall when Richard Nixon sent the troops into Cambodia, in April of 1970, to look for Vietcong strongholds and shelters in that country, the United States went on a tear that culminated in 4 young people being shot down in Kent State, in 2 at Jackson State, and in the closing down of 300 colleges and universities, and it forced the president of the United States to walk to the Lincoln Memorial where students were gathering and tell them that he was withdrawing the troops from Cambodia because he was scared shitless.

“And that is the only thing that moves them.

“Not whether you vote for them tomorrow or the next day.

“Electoral politics doesn’t really bother them that much.”

These are the words of William Kuntsler, who spent a lifetime defending people in court from the government which tried to prosecute them for fighting against the Vietnam war. His words are as true as ever.

Polls show that 6 in 10 want a full or partial withdrawal from Iraq, and even a few Republicans in Congress have signed onto a bill calling on Bush to draw up a timetable for “victory” and withdrawal from Iraq. Now is the time to put the stark fear Kuntsler talked about into the government.

Eight months after Kerry handed Bush the election, the anti-war movement has called for mass demonstrations in Washington on Saturday September 24. It’s about damn time! But eight months late is better than never.

Soldiers, military families, veterans, and everyone against the war needs to mobilize as many people as possible for the march. While March 20, 2003 showed that a couple of big anti-war marches can’t stop a war, Vietnam showed that mass demonstrations, combined with direct action on campuses and soldiers organizing against the war in the military, CAN force the government to bring the troops home now. It may have a taken years for this process to happen, but happen again today it must.

The lives of tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children depend on it.

The demonstrations (they are separate as of this writing) are being sponsored by International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice. Information about the times and places where the marches and rallies will be on September 24, visit either www.internationalanswer.org or www.unitedforpeace.org.

Send an email to contact@traveling-soldier.org if you are on active duty, a veteran, or a military family and you’d like to go.

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