Sonoma State Star

Issue date: 2/21/07 Section: Editorial

Loca no mas: Martin and Bush get down with their bad selves during Inaugural-palooza 2001. Martin recently gave Bush the bird and spoke out against the war. (Courtesy //Rick Bowmer AP)

The "Camp Peace" campus protest last week has given me a welcome respite from the wearying world of campus politics. It's nice to take a break from the coming faculty work actions and the attendant political posturing, to recharge and prepare for the walkouts and Administration & Finance woes.

For now, I'll take some time to play to my base a bit and stir up the rightwing lurkers out there who enjoy sending me anonymous hate mail. (I'd really love to print it guys, but the anonymity precludes me from doing that.)

Let's talk about the war, shall we?

It was heartening to see so much participation in the camping portion of the protest and the large turnout at last Thursday's day of action. I didn't realize there were so many politically aware students on this campus, but I tend to be a cynical and sometimes bitter old man living in the hell of my own preconceptions. Hopefully, this is a sign that mainstream America is willing to join the fringe people - you know, the ones who've been against this moronic war and right about the pure disastrousness of it from the beginning - and stand up against the Bush Regime. I hope it's not too late.

It appears as if the majority of the American public has finally awoken from its post-9/11 somnambulance and seen that maybe "fighting them over there" - in Iraq and Afghanistan - hasn't been the best foreign policy decision in U.S. history, and could very well signal the end of American hegemony as we know it.

What's left of the voters in this country went to the polls last November and sent an unequivocal message to the Decider-in-Chief and his bloodthirsty cronies, that we are tired of our national treasure looted in the name of war profiteering and of the blood sacrifice to the vampires of His administration.

Unfortunately, the message has not been received, or is being completely ignored by the embattled occupants of the White House.

Even as squishy, pale Republican Senators and wishy-washy "I didn't vote for war, but only for authorization" Democrats tentatively jump off of the Bush war wagon, the BushCo spin machine is ginning up for another potentially cataclysmic war with Iran, and "surging" our over-used troops into a bloody red paste in the streets of Baghdad.

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