Will Pitt's
Shelter from the Storm offers an interesting and provactive perspective:
"It's the hypocrisy, stupid. It goes on and on and on, and it is exhausting in the extreme to consider, much less address and attack. Lately, the hypocrisy needle has been pegged over into the red. Leave it to the Republican majority to take an important issue, an issue filled with questions about medical ethics, the rights of the disabled people, the rights of spouses, the place of federalism in a national debate and the simple value of human life, and transmogrify it into a ghoulish circus sideshow best used to score political points and do a little fundraising on the side."
Will then introduces
Mission Not Accomplished Day
"Two years ago, on the 2nd of May 2003, George W. Bush donned a flight outfit and landed dramatically on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. He stood before the assembled personnel, quoted Scripture, and declared the war in Iraq to be all but over beneath a banner that proclaimed MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
The anniversary of that day is right around the corner, and a group called Mission NOT Accomplished is organizing a way to mark the occasion. They wish to call attention to the passing of this dubious anniversary, and to keep what happened on that day in the forefront of our national consciousness."
I had introduced Mission Not Accomplished in a diary at dKOS yesterday evening:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/28/12011/4332
You are all encouraged to reflect on Will's essay and begin creating your own special day of activities for May 2, 2005. Please do distribute the links to as many as possible.
Mission Not Accomplished Day (and beyond) exists only to the extent that others make it happen.
Peace.