None of the people I've met on the web want what is happening. Many of them may well feel as frustrated and angry at perceived/actual impotence to do something as I. I mentioned this to one, and received the following:
----- Forwarded message begin ----- >Dear MoveOn member, > >We've launched an emergency petition from citizens around the >world to the U.N. Security Council. We'll be delivering the >list of signers and your comments to the 15 member states of >the Security Council on THURSDAY, MARCH 6. > >If hundreds of thousands of us sign, it could be an enormously >important and powerful message -- people from all over the >world joining in a single call for a peaceful solution. But >we really need your help, and soon. Please sign and ask your >friends and colleagues to sign TODAY at: > > http://www.moveon.org/emergency/ > >In the next week, the U.N. Security Council will likely meet >to decide on authorizing a war against Iraq. If the Council >votes to accept a second resolution, it'll be very difficult >to avert a war. But if the resolution doesn't get enough >votes, it'll be a major setback for the Bush Administration's >plans to invade and occupy Iraq. > >In the United States and around the world, millions of us >oppose a war against Iraq. We believe that tough inspections >can disarm Saddam Hussein without the loss of a single life. >This week may represent our last chance to win without war. > >The stakes couldn't really be much higher. A war with Iraq >could kill tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and inflame >the Middle East. According to current plans, it would require >an American occupation of the country for years to come. And >it could escalate in ways that are horrifying to imagine. > >We can stop this tragedy from unfolding. But we need to speak >together, and we need to do so now. Let's show the Security >Council what world citizens think. You can add your voice at: > > http://www.moveon.org/emergency/ > >Then please ask your friends, family, colleagues, >acquaintances -- anyone you know who shares this concern -- to >sign on today. As the New York Times put it, "there may still >be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world >public opinion." The Bush Administration's been flexing its >muscles. Now let's flex ours. --- To see opinions of others, "non-Network" media, you might want to read: http://www.CommonDreams.org -- This story is at commondreams, too --written up by the guys in the "Ari and Me" or whatever column over to the right: Here is a link to video clip from C-Span of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer getting laughed off the stage this past week during a press conference on February 25 (Need a Real Player and broadband connection to view it): http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/edrive/iraq022503_whpb.rm?start=28:10 .. The issue at hand near the end of the briefing is wether or not the U.S. was trying to buy the votes of Mexico and other Latin American nations at the U.N. by a couple of reporters who are either from Mexico or some other Latin American country. When pressed Fleischer broke away from his line about the U.S. using "diplomacy" to get what it wants out of the U.N. and says, 'Think about the implications of what you are saying. You're saying that the leaders of other nations are buyable." Then comes the punch line that sent the room into an uproar of laughter: "And that is not an acceptable proposition." In the background you can hear a reporter say out loud, "Laughed off the stage!" Great theater in a town with such a discplined political process and such an obediant press corps. In Britain they not only get better political reporting from their media, they also get the highly entertaining "Prime Minister's Questions" once a week. It's funny looking at how upset Fleischer was at getting laughed at before he walked off the stage. What a wimp. That might have rated 1/10th the volume of the booing and jeering Tony Blair has to shout over when giving answer's during Prime Minister's Questions. -- ------ Forwarded message end ------ -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
