keep the phone lines humming

time to call your congresspeople, folks. email them, fax them, call them. the vote is going down within the next 48 hours.  congress will approve, or not, bush's $87 BILLION package for military support, and "aid and reconstruction" for iraq and afghanistan, probably by the end of the week.  by now you have surely read some of those articles detailing what this sum of money would do for health care, education, elderly concerns, etc. in this country.  i've even seen it broken down by state, the number of jobs that could be created, teachers that could be hired, cops and firefighters put into our cities and towns. 

so, returning to the subject of my previous posts....the destruction of iraq.  what sense does any of this make?  we destroy a country, then leave our own citizens in the lurch in order to rebuild it?  some of the democratic hopefuls want this package to be financed by calling back the tax cut to the wealthiest among us (those not hurting for health care, decent education for their kids, money for prescription meds, affordable housing, or simply...a paycheck).  several of them want it vetoed entirely.  a large portion of the money will go for military spending in these countries.  that imperative, termed moral, to "support our troops."  no amount of money is going to make these operations palatable to the troops discussed in an article on AOL's own newspage.  no amount of money is going to make this operation moral.  that goal was lost before it began.  i just can't stop returning to the orchard destruction in a desert community, the collective punishment of families, an event almost biblical in its echoes.  i am relieved to find myself in very good company, as you will see if you follow this link to read not just the post but the comments as well.

i've emailed and faxed.  now i'm going to the phone.  it almost calls washington by itself now.