"On February 15, 2003, at least 10 million people in 400 cities in 60

[understandinglife]

... countries, across 5 continents saw what was about to happen plenty clearly. They saw that the coming war would be illegitimate, deadly, and destructive. They sensed that invading Iraq would, in the long run, be no cake-walk. They already understood that what the Bush administration so clearly planned to do was based on lies. And they knew it was all wrong -- not from the start or months or years later -- but before it ever began.

If medals are being given out, perhaps this is what should never be forgotten. It was the "crazies" in the streets. It was kids in weird clothes with strange hair. It was a man holding a puppet and a woman with a homemade sign. They knew then what it took the majority of Americans years to figure out. That the war would be a disaster and that, in any case, it was wrong. Those people, braving a bitterly cold day in New York City in February 2003, had better intel, more foresight, and better judgment than the military, the intelligence agencies, and especially the President and Vice President of the United States and all their advisors.

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From Get a Clue: Who Had the Real Intel on the War


by Nick Turse on November 7, 2005

Nick Turse works in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University and is the Associate Editor and Research Director of TomDispatch.com.

More at the link:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=34064

I, like many here, were among the millions who knew that Bush and the neoconsters were embarking on an illegal, imperialistic war of aggression on Iraq.

We knew we were being told countless lies.

But we failed to stop the murderers and much of our failure is due to a complicit US Congress and a US commercial media enterprise that was not only complicit, but in the case of the New York Times and Fox News in particular, were propagandists of the first order.

It's tribunal time in the United States of America.

If we ever have any hope of restoring our credibility; if we have any intention of being perceived throughout the world as a beacon of the rule of law, We the People ... need to convene the first US War Crimes Tribunal.

We the People must bring charges against all who conspired and conducted war crimes.

We the People must ensure that each defendant is provided comprehensive legal defense as they are robustly prosecuted.

We the People must insist on life imprisonment with a variety of duties to be performed in service to humanity for those convicted.

It's tribunal time in the United States of America.


Peace.

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Well said! n/t