DEAR ALIZARIN: 2,245 Dead. How many more?

Look at me.
I am demonstrating.
Against the war.
"How?" you ask.
Just look at the title of my entry. Apparently, those words written are a demonstration. Do not print and take this with you in the House gallery. You may be arrested, as was Cindy Sheehan. Rep. Young's wife, who wore a shirt emblazoned with that unpatriotic rallying cry "Support Our Troops" was asked to leave on an earlier date, but not arrested. I guess it does pay to sleep with someone on the inside.

Ok, as the well-versed political analyst, Elisabeth from the View and formally from Survivor, pointed out this morning, we need laws because you can't just have people going in an creating chaos in the House saying whatever they want (yes, that is an extremely loose paraphrase; actually, it is more my interpretation of what she said). Fine, no demonstrations in the House. We of course know that all our elected officials vote soley to their conscience without any outside influences.

Seriously, folks, the entire country knows Cindy Sheehan. It is not like she was some nutcase off the street. Just let her be. After all, as the CNN link above points out, wasn't one of Bush's points the support of the troops in Iraq. So why arrest and expel these two women? What is it, exactly, that Bush is trying to hide? The fact that anyone (or a majority, I will optimistically hope) in this country disagrees with the war, with the killing of Americans and Iraqis, with the destruction of an entire country for the financial gain of the wealthiest of the U.S.? Well, it isn't so easy to hide, as the protest in LA last night proved (albeit, mostly to those trying to get into the free concert at Amoeba -- see earlier blog). And such an attitude and hypocrisy will definitely earn you the title of Worst President Ever. Do you think I could put that up in my classroom? (Thanks again to Grooveva for the photo from the 1/31 protest in LA).