Give Peace a Chance - Petition to create the office of The Secretary of Peace

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[BigSlick]

Here's the link to give your endorsement to the Department of Peace.

http://whitehouse2.org/searches?q=Department+of+Peace&commit=Search

Please everybody, this is a chance to speak up on this and any other issue you feel passionate about!

[sweetlucy47]

I just voted on this...maybe this should be brought back out to the front again. ...

[smiles]

Peace.

Yes. Please.

The link below (lifted from my morning updates from TruthOut.org) illustrates why a Dept of Peace is overdue -- 

Richard Clarke | President Bush Saved US Lives?

http://www.truthout.org/010909K

Richard Clarke, The New York Daily News: "George Bush, still President, is engaging in a legacy tour of media outlets. This comes despite his earlier having said he did not know how history would judge the Iraq war 'because we'll all be dead.' Actually, many people are already dead because of Bush, and that is the point to keep in mind when he talks about his legacy. Among the themes Bush is striking are that through action at home and fighting 'them' over there, not over here, his administration stopped terrorist attacks and prevented another 9/11."

[judi]

Wonderful wonderful idea!!!  To me this should be one of the highest priorities

Loved the article...

My father said similar things in tapes he made me re his life...in one he talks of going to war...he was involved in the liberation of France a week after D day...he talked of laying in a foxhole bombs going off, the devastation, the fears...etc it is horrifying to me...he was considered one of the older ones, he was 22 with a wife and baby at home...

but then he talks about peace...and how war is hell and anyone who tells you differently is either lying or has never been there...told me to continue to work for peace, do all I could to stop wars...
then I understood why he would make us a huge breakfast back in the early seventies as my friends from detroit came to pick me up to go to dc to protest the war...he backed us 100%

and just last night my husband and I were talking of how little we hear of the war in Iraq these days...almost as if people just dont care anymore...but the guns still go off, the bombs still explode and people are still being killed and injured...

oh Kucinich would have been my first choice for president, based on his stance against war...

but overjoyed at obama, and have hopes that he will see the real need for a dept of peace

to me, regardless of what this dept would really do, it gives a great message to us and to the world...a dept of peace...oh how I love how that sounds

Thanks again for this post and attention to this issue...

[sweetlucy47]

you bet... thanks for sharing that. That was  one of the reasons why Bill Ayres never bothered me. No I didn't support his methods, but yes I understood what he was trying to do. It was a different time in the late 60's early 70's... a different world almost.

I too have noticed there is not much talk of the Iraq war. That was one of the reasons I chose the Military blog to push as one of the ones to talk about as the one to vote for...the one I was and am promoting is for a young man who like your dad went to war and soon realized it was wrong. Now he wants to do all he can to stop it. That's why he writes about it...while the others try to glamorize it. He just tries to tell the truth about it..the ugly truth.

We have to try to strive for peace...and only by putting our country back to where it used to be...by turning our back on the way it is now...the torture, the rendition, those kinds of things, punishing those who are responisible, can we find that peace and get back on the right track.