I'm proud most days but today especially, especially while listening to Neil Young's new album, streaming
here. Don't hit it all at once! I'm still listening to it (thanks for scoop Raw!) It's AWESOME!
Neil re-affirms that we are the good guys, not them. Not the neo-cons, not Bush, not Cheney most of all, who is simply an evil man. Bush is too dumb to be this evil.
Besides Neil, these Dems are making me proud today. They are fighting to expose the ugly argument that Repubs like to make, that we liberated oppressed Kurds and Shiites (which we did) in Iraq (while killing thousands upon thousands other Iraqis, not even counting the 100,000 America killed in Iraq War I)...
...what's always left out is that we don't go do that, post-Cold War, to countries that don't have oil or natural gas (with exception of Yugoslavia)... we don't help out people such as the Darfur genocide victims:
Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government's role in atrocities in the Darfur region.
"The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end," Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest.
Four other Democratic Congress members -- James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran of Virginia -- were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to a fine.
"We must hold the Sudanese government accountable for the attacks they have supported on their own citizens in Darfur," Olver said.
Dozens of demonstrators carried signs, some reading "Stop the slaughter" and "Women of Darfur suffer multiple gang rapes," in front of the embassy Friday morning.
The protesters cheered as the Congress members and others were cuffed, hands behind their backs, with plastic ties and quietly led to a white police van by U.S. Secret Service uniformed officers.