From
Truthdig::
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) will introduce a resolution Wednesday that calls on President Bush to appeal to all sides for a cessation of hostilities in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict and to commit the United States to multiparty negotiations, along with support for an international peacekeeping mission during the talks.
Florida Democrat has posted a diary urging people to call their Representatives to demand a stop to the bombing in the Middle East. His diary includes their phone numbers. When you call, I suggest that you mention that you urge your Rep to vote for Kucinich's resolution.
The resolution can be read
here. That Web page also has the speech that Kucinich delivered at the House yesterday, which reads as follows:
Mr. Speaker, We make war with such certainty, yet we are befuddled how to create peace. This paradox requires reflection, if we are to survive. Making and endorsing war demands a secret love of death, a fearful desire to embrace annihilation. Creating peace requires the mirror of compassion, putting ourselves in the other person's place, in all their suffering, with all their hopes, and to act from our heart's capacity for love, not fear.
The fight against terrorism in the 21st century is beginning to have the feel of the fight against communism in the 20th century: Conjuring of enemies, scapegoating and wanton destruction. Our war on terror has become a war of errors as we blindly exercise our capacity for war making.
We have not yet begun to explore our capacity for peacemaking, so we are reduced to a predatory voyerism: creating war, watching war, being aghast at war, impotent to stop ourselves.
We are the most powerful nation, but even we do not have the power to reserve for ourselves, or to grant to our allies, an exemption from the laws of cause and effect.
The fate of the world lies in the balance. And until we consciously choose peace over war, life over death, the balance is tipping toward mutually assured destruction.
Another speech Kucinich gave before introducing the resolution is
here.
And here is a press release.