I pledge to vote against every Senator and Representative who approves funding to continue the disastrous Iraq War.
We have already given far too much of our blood and treasure - and killed far too many Iraqis - for a war based on lies. We are now occupying a hostile nation divided by civil war for the benefit of military contractors and Big Oil.
The only way to support our troops is to bring them home NOW, and no funds should be used for any other purpose. If Congress fails to bring our troops home, I will do everything I can - and urge everyone I know - to defeat pro-war Senators and Representatives, both in my party's primary elections and in the November general election.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PLEDGE.
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Voting them in or out doesn't seem to work because the minute someone is voted in, that someone is immediately invested in the corporate club and takes its orders from the monied powers. We need to stop playing the game. Voting has lost its teeth. We need to find a tougher way to make our point.
Yes, but we need to work both inside and outside the system for change and use every method at our disposal. Using votes to hold elected officials to their campaign pledges is one tool -- and an important one. Think of the alternative -- until our "tougher" way to make a point has an effect.
What do you suggest, Al?
TUC:
didn't we just try that in November? and has it worked?
it's time for something much more radical.
Nader pointed the way years ago:
get rid of the corporatocracy! start by ending "corporate personhood".
Make corporations responsible to the people; start by making them pay reasonable taxes and take away their rebates and favors; stop the Pentagon and NIH from underwriting their research and development of weapons and drugs; stop giving Oil companies grants to build new refineries that haven't been built in three decades!
Most people probably have no idea what "personhood" is or what it means or how it affects us.
Maybe you should start publishing some of the info from POCLAD and
RECLAIM DEMOCRACY.
On Democracy Now this morning Cindy Sheehan made the point that Americans are distracted by trivia and she said, 'we need to put our bodies on the line'. Cindy would have probably stayed at home in Sacramento if Casey hadn't been killed. So maybe he didn't really die in vain.
Sorry to ramble.
TUC;
Add this to my previous; the only sure way to change the system, from inside and out, is with a real and authentic THIRD PARTY that can offer candidates of passion and integrity who can speak truth not only to power but to the people. This is a new party, unfounded as yet, and unpeopled, but a move in the right direction.
Al,
Holding officials accountable for their votes and the initiation of a Third Party are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Both are necessary.
The former can have some immediate impact (the populace is more aware (according to polls) than it was even in November) -- the latter may take much more time to build due to the political, media, corporate, and financial realities of the moment.
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