Not this again.

Every time we have gone to war rich men get richer and poor mother's sons do the fighting and poor people do the dying in whatever corner of the world the imperialists need to steal something. We came out to say no war in Iraq in the 90's and they went anyway an left a mess of the country, There's a name for it FUBAR. We said in 2003 please don't do that same stupid thing again and kill more people. The same rich men's tools that sold us the babies being thrown from incubators told us that there would be a mushroom cloud and they made 2 trillion dollars in profiteering no bid contract theft of the future of our children while they bombed and irradiated and poisoned the children of a patch of land that once saw the first civilizations as they scratched a few words on a tablet. Today I am saddened to report that once again we have to take to the streets and say No to Murder, No to Imperial Amerika, No to bombing people in far off lands to make the 1% richer and poison the planet. Today at the courthouse in Eureka was a start but only that.

10 years ago tomorrow, March 20th 2003 will mark the 10 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the united states. At a total cost of 6 trillion dollars and more than 125,000 murdered people in Iraq. The lies and deception of those that got us into that disaster are well documented. The profiteering and incompetence are writ large in a nation that has been segregated by sectarian violence in the wake of another in a long history of imperialist adventures that have left a stain on the conscience of our people. I would like to ask all of those people here tonight and watching at home to spend just a small part of tomorrow thinking about the consequences of allowing liars and war criminals to escape justice. About the consequences of bigotry, by valuing the lives of people of other nations as lesser beings because they have a different skin color or follow a different religion we devalue all life. I was a young man during the Vietnam war when people took to the streets in huge numbers to stop madness of Imperialism. It saddens me that we forgot that tragedy in a single generation. 50 people were killed in bombings just yesterday in Iraq. I would hope that we can learn from this absolute failure as a people to stop bombing first and never asking questions.