Yoga does help. Right after I wrote that comment I went to see the movie V for Vendetta. I feel much better now. Hope.

I went to peacetakescourage.com and found it being played with a heart breaking video of family and loved ones that have forever lost a part of them and will suffer never ending pain because of the careless, arrogant actions and tremendous lies of the Bush administration.

We are all angry at what the Bush administration’s lies have resulted in particularly in Iraq. We can all make fun of how incredibly stupid and incompetent George Bush is. But something is getting lost in our message of outrage. Please watch this to understand the most important impact of what Bush’s actions/lies have done.

It’s hard to watch but SO necessary. If you’re not moved by this or don’t feel a pain in your heart, you should apply for a job in the Bush White House or go to help re-elect any member of Congress that justifies this War in Iraq (or any War for that matter).

Please watch/listen pass it around:

http://peacetakescourage.cf.hu…..mises.html

1) All American prisoners may be beaten, gagged, stripped, rendered and tortured.
2) Rinse repeat.

Your cri de coeur touched me, so I zipped right down to the bottom of the comments to try to cheer you up.

My daughter has two little ones, 4 and 7, and we laugh about her case of “mommy brain”. I had a congenital case when my two were small. I have noticed in the last year that she has become even more anxious than usual, a combination, I think, of hormones (nature really works hard to make us moms watch over the next generation), the general tenor of the times, and living in NYC, with all its memories of 9/11 (she, like most New Yorkers, had friends, acquaintances and co-workers killed in the towers).

So, look forward to post-menopause (the anxiety-producing hormones die down), play the “glad game” once a day (I confess that I watched Pollyanna last weekend) – “the news is bad today, but I am glad that planes are not actually dropping bombs on my neighborhood and my kids are not cowering under the bed,” and be thankful that you have the clear vision to see all the ugliness, injustice and misery in this world. This will cause you pain, but you can channel that pain into creatively making the world a better place for your kids. It might by by writing, by political activism, or, at this point, just by teaching your children how to treat other living beings with dignity and respect and grace.

Yoga helps too.

As far as we know, the Iran-Contra activity was a three way deal involving Israel as well as the U.S.A. & Iran

The weapons went from the U.S.A. to Iran via Israel & the money went through some laundering (sound at all familiar ?) before “stuff” ended up in Contra hands

I`ve always been curious just what all the details were on the agreement between the three parties; I think the Iranians were telegraphing to the world what was going on by releasing the “hostages” as President NoMind was taking the oath of office

What we are seeing now is, possibly, yet more of the same fruit of that poisoned tree

I sorta wonder if there are any/many “investors” in the Carlyle Group from the Islamic Republic of Iran or Israel

Scenes from “Syriana” come to mind…

“We are accustomed to the new land yet attached to the old country” – anon

markfromireland, you still on?

EPU’d from Taylor’s earlier column:
Speaking for myself, religion is part of my energy and motivation to work to make society better. My hero was always Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Now I do medical mission work in a developing country.

A commenter above was talking about religious leaders getting rich. Dr. Schweitzer was rich in spirit only. But isn’t that the higher road?

Is the president of Iran trying to goad us into a reaction?

I think he’s trying to interview for Scott McClellan’s job. He sure seems to know how to say exactly the right thing to advance BushCo’s goals.