Pledge “armsagainstwar”
"I will wear a white piece of fabric around my arm but only if 1 other person will do the same."
— Tina Louise, showing unity (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 18th March 2006
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I pledge to wear a piece of white fabric around my arm until the war in Iraq ends. I pledge to do this because I want to show how many of us object to this war - regardless of race, religion, location, political belief or membership of the many anti-war/peace groups. I want to show unity with every person who opposes this war - and to show it to the media and governments of the world. Please join me.
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Tina Louise, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Tina Louise
- Lucie Adams
- Melanie
- Doug Hyden
- James Gilland
- FC BREWER
- Evelyn
- Mary Lou
- Ginny Howard
- Bruce Coary
- Mike Wisniewski
- Julie Daniels
- Robert Lezuch
- LESTER S SHEPHERD
- June & Fred Taylor
- JOan Wile
- Sally Connors
- Ryan Potochnik
- B.J. Doucet
- Anita Beaty
- Michael Daly
- Jack Russell
- Helen Jane Hearn
- Brooke Zepp
- Ali
- Sean Malone
- Henri Lacordaire
- James BWCP
- Matthew Cuffe
- Richard Norman
- Danielle Thibault
- Andre Kenji
- Daniel Clark
- 2 people who did not want to give their names
Melanie
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
LET 'EM FINISH THIS TIME!
John Howard is a War Criminal
End this obscenity now!
Rounded numbers
Rounded lives
The 100th soldier
From the UK dies
Tears of grief
Tears of shock
The 100th soldier
Another loss
Mourning on
Mourning off
The 100th soldier
We count the cost
Of wars fought
In our name
Of loss loss
With no gain
Of cost cost
To our shame
The 100th soldier
The 1st
The 25th the 3rd
The numbered souls
On lists and roles
Names no longer called
This memoriam
The final
For them
They drew their last breath
Final thought…
Noble cause?
you stop our peopel going to grave
you stop the tortur hurt and pain
to help us stand as men again
to give us freedum you have died
i wish i stand there by your side
you have given for another
and GOD he know we are all brother
so love ones hold your head up high
for honor did your soldier die
OUR FREEDOM OUR NEW DEMOCATY
THANK YOU YOUNG BRITISH LIONS...KAMIL
thank you for taking the time to respond with your view. Also for the poem - well written in a language that is second for you. I see your points, but, the reasons for objecting to the war in Iraq are individual to each of us. Some of us object because the cash funding the war leaves our hospitals and schools underfunded - some, because morally they don't want their taxes paying for weapons - others because they don't feel the war was legally entered into and so on.
That you got rid of a dictator is good - but this is something for the Iraqi people. Your government issues are yours - the US/UK are not the international police for this sort of thing. Problems with the way our governments operate are up to the citizens to resolve ... and that is exactly what I am trying to do with this. I want my government to know I don't want to be responsible for the death of anyone - soldiers, civilians, dicators, terrorists (hard to define) etc.
I wish you peace.
Namaste
teddys still in there hand
mother and father swisted and stil
burried deep in the sand.
this is what hapen for last 30 years
england help Saddam in the past
maybe you scared this man go to far
you came and help us at last
But now the dust nerly settel
we vote as free people and proud
we hold our head high as IRAQIs shood
but we dont shout your praises aloud.
Tina louise this is one world
we must look after each other .we must understand some peopel want more than others and are willing to kill inosent men woman and children to get there own way.thank GOD ,the brave british soldier and the americans,australiens and the rest who helped to stop hitler getting to england or you may not be here now.
THANK YOU. KAMIL
Time for troops and hunger-strikers to come home.
Time for us to heal our land and each other. And say thank you to the troops when they get back home. It has not been easy for them. They follow their commanders. Sometimes lions can be led by donkeys.
It is also time to say peace and blessings to those British citizens (and I say citizens, not 'residents') who have been falsely imprisoned without legal rights.
We need to clean up the mess that we're in.
Time for white armbands, white suits, and white flags.
Time for peace.
No war with Iran 2006.
It is time for SOLIDARITY IN THE UK.
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IMO, the most effective solution to the problems in Iraq going forward would be for the current occupiers to leave in an orderly manner handing over power to UN troops from muslim countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan.
A huge immediate effect and saving of life could be also made immediately by two indivduals doing something which would cost them mostly pride but possibly their jobs. If Mr Bush and his poodle aka Mr Blair were to admit that their invasion of Iraq was a mistake and that a solution similar to the one outlined above would be sought, I believe that a huge number of lives would be saved.
Whilst I respect the right of others to believe they can create a world free of terror, I suggest to them the only effective method would be to take a portion of the underpopulated USA (where most of these folk seem to come from) and build a big wall round it restricting all traffic in and out. I would support such an initiative and would also feel more comfortable living in the rest of the world which would thus be deprived of this group.
Sadam was no doubt bad and should have been replaced by a government the people of Iraq would approve of - not torn down and replaced with corporate interests that serve other countries as a natural priority before concerning themselves with the citizens of Iraq....and again I have to stress the question, why are we there if there are no WMD's as an excuse?
We did not go with the wish to save the Iraqi people from a tyranical leader - this is not our place or our stated mission. If we plan on policing the world for tyrants and saving innocent foreign folk from a life starved of Western style dymocracy - then maybe Africa would be a better place to serve? It is clear to any thinking person that our motives were a lie and our reasons for staying - self serving. Until I hear somebody voicing the people of Iraq, I will find it hard to recognise a true government there. But that is for the Iraqi people to deal with - that they are rid of a bad leader is a good thing, now THEY must come to decisions on the next step - not us. Namaste
Tina louise I jump into burning car to save peopel I did not know who they were.the police say what you do that for that was brave .I say not brave they would do the same for me.TINA THIS IS ONE WORLD WE MUST LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER.We all have hard fight against cancer and aids and natural killer deseases. we should not be killing ourselves as well.and if someone is we should all help to stop this happening.
KAMIL..............
Clearly we are in agreement that we should not be killing other people and that is what continues to happen daily while the occupying forces stay in Iraq. Namaste
Namaste, Tina
Thanking sim...only 300,000 only 300,000 ...what if they were only 300,000 english peopel fred from butcher.bert from groucer tom the teacher gased .die slowly
1 is to many sim...but read iran figures millions..
if you have sim on your side you lost person..
BAD IRAQIS KILL GOOD IRAQIS FOR 30 YEARS
AMERICA AND BRITAIN KILL BAD IRAQIS
FOR WHATEVER REASON I DONT CARE.
GOOD IRAQIS ARE FREE HAPPY TO JOIN HUMAN RACE IN NEW DEMOCRATY.
BUT STILL MANY BAD IRAQIS WITH LOTS OF MONEY TAKEN OVER 30 YEARS WANT TO CAUSE
DEATH TO GOOD IRAQIS.
IF AMERICA AND BRITAIN LEAVE NOW TERRORIST KILL EVERYONE.
BUT TRAIN OUR ARMY AND SET DATE TO GO.
KAMIL...FINISH.
we were treated like dog.
How can you say we were treated like human under saddam.
taken in the night,hung like dog.beaten on feet till bleed.made to run on sharp stone till all skin gone.
many many die ...but why I tell you
you have no feeling I can tell .you sound like secret police.only 3,oo,ooo
you say sim with no feeling when even iran who keep figur down say 1 million
killed in action.Kamil...
I'm afriad your anger seems very misplaced, you seem more angry at the peace movement than at actual human rights abuses by the USA and UK, and you keep posting under someone elses name. Your level of English seems to vary wildly too and I'm sorry to say that I'm highly suspicious of your motivation (or should that be Edmund's motivation).
The poster is elsewhere on this site with other comments in other tones and again with varying ability in English - so it is clear to me that the opinions of he/she/they are not something he/she/they are presenting honestly. If this person were genuine I would be happy to enter into dialogue as that would be healthy - this isn't.
Thanks again. Was anyone here at the march in London on Saturday? It was an incredible event - not well covered by media - but the solidarity, dignity and intent were palpable. We gave out many white armbands on the day and encouraged those who took them, to pass the message on. Some fellow protesters in the US also wore the armbands.
The official police figure for the London march was 15,000 - the organisers said 100,000. I checked and the capacity figure for Trafalgar Square is 80,000 - and as it was packed to capacity with no room to move, I am inclined to believe the organiser's figure.
Namaste,
Tina Louise
I think the white armband idea is great btw! All the best.
I am extremely angery, that because I found this atrocity wrong, that this made me as not supporting my grandchildren (2) and other family member (1) who served in Iraq. I KNOW that OUR CHILDREN in Iraq were doing their best, it was people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condolesa Rice and the rest of the PNAC-Org who control our government that were endangering the entire world.
Example of the dishonesty was Condolesa Rice stating "We do not torture," meaning the "Rendition" that this sick person calls torture gives legitimacy to her lies.
I am tired of people like Cheney and Rumsfeld who set up Saddam with WMD, then had the guts to demonize Iraq for having WMD. I am aware how these vile people were involved in 1980's in removing Iraq from US 'Terrorist Supporting Nation' listing, that had before prevented sale of WMD to Iraq. Removing Iraq from the embargo began the (legal) sale of WMD to Iraq/Saddam... remember Rumsfeld 1982 shaking Saddams hand in agreement?
I am against US-gov KUBARK torture manuals that Pentagon Defense Dept Head Richard Cheney was made aware of in 1991, this thanks to School of the Americas Watch (SOAW.org), who proved the Pentagon was using a torture training manual to train So.American military and paramilitary.
I am against Halliburton and their subsiduaries hiring 3rd World labor to work in Iraq, vastly overcharging US-taxpayers to pay these people (at a much lower scale in pay), allowing the US gov to keep the vast majority of Iraq citizens unemployed.