More peace petitions floating around on the Internet. Petitiononline.com is an amazing bit of democracy in action. Hundreds of petitions about almost anything. I just don't think that petitions are what we need now if we want peace in the world. I think that people, all people, need to be speaking up a lot more, protesting more. Demanding a peaceful resolution. Doing whatever it takes to get the American government to take notice. But I can honestly and sadly say that I don't think that it is going to happen. America is asleep. The American people have been bullied and brainwashed into believing that we are fighting a just war. And worse yet we are constantly bombarded by Gallup polls that show that 70% of the people here support the war, whatever that means. Yesterday Iran warned America that the worst is yet to come. France now says that they don’t know whose side they are on, American or Iraq. Syria is now supposedly helping Iraq. The Turks want to move in. It wasn't like this a month ago before we invaded. The world has turned against us. People in hundreds of countries around the world are protesting us. It is not a good time to be an American. But we are an innocent people. and we need to remember that. We are being force fed constant propaganda from all sides telling us that we are right in this bombing and invasion of this other country. So we sit on the sidelines and watch.  

Friends in other countries are emailing me telling me that CNN is not telling the whole story, only a very biased American government controlled side. They sent me to yahoo to get a more global realistic perspective. Yahoo has been surprisingly unbiased and bold in their attempt at reporting ALL the news about this invasion from a worldwide perspective. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&e=9&u=/nm/20003032/ts_nm/iraq_protests_dc_5 is a great place to start. Just yesterday in Boston, Mass, they had the largest peace march in thirty years in that great city. 

"This war spoke to me as being wrong, unjust, immoral and certainly not what American values are all about," said Susan Hughes, a former member of President Bush's Republican Party who lives in Groton, Massachusetts. 

"Bush started this war to depose a dictator, but now we have an administration that is acting like the dictatorship we are trying to take out," the 46-year-old said as she prepared to march through Boston.

And hundreds of other peace marches and protests all over the world. The Italians are really getting angry and very active in their protests. And many other cities across the globe. It is inspiring. BBC news is also doing a good job at telling the whole story. CNN and other American networks like ABC etc are just totally government controlled at this point here in the states. They report nothing about the shopping malls and grocery stores that are being bombed and the hundreds of civilians that are being killed everyday in Iraq. For the record, as an American, it is hard to know really if the media is just totally controlled by the government here, or if they are just scared to report all the facts, or if they just don't know the facts like some of the other international media. But it has gotten to the point where watching CNN has just become totally nauseating if you are even a remotely intelligent person.