Jeff DeLuca Introduces Peace and Next President of the United States, Kucinich

by: Guest Author

Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 23:00:00 PM EDT

(On Saturday, September 8, 2007, I was honored to witness wisdom at work. According to the Palm Beach Post, Hundreds in West Palm Beach [came together to] protest the war. Those that stood silently, with fingers raised in the sign of peace appeared to focus on the current combative circumstances in Iraq. However, the marchers knew, peace throughout the planet was, and is, their truer vision.
Each advocate expressed his or her desire for global tranquility. They walked down Okeechobee Boulevard and Tamarind Avenue. Drivers passed by and honked their horns in support. Some waved expressions in-kind. Others voiced thanks to the marchers. Young and old, hiker and those in motorcars united in a common cause.
After the demonstration, the local activists quietly entered the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. Their purpose was one. Protesters, myself among them, waited to hear the Ohio Congressman, and Presidential hopeful, a person like no other, Dennis Kucinich, present his plans for a permanent global peace.
Introducing the inspirational candidate was another wise and wondrous man, Jeff DeLuca. The young and impressive Mister DeLuca is kind enough to share his words here at BeThink. I hope you will find this missive as magnificent as I do. I think this treatise might advance greater thought and discussion. Please share your reflections.
I am pleased to present Jeff DeLuca.

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Please view a video presentation . . . Hundreds rally in West Palm Beach for Iraq war to end

I want to start by thanking you all for braving the heat to be here and march with us for this important cause. The time has never been more urgent for us to hold events like these and to unify under that notion that that it is time to bring the troops home alive now.

We have watched the carnage unfold now in Iraq for four and a half years. Since George W. Bush told us we had accomplished our mission. We are here to let him and all his enablers know that we will not stand idly by as another 100, another 1000, of our family and friends dies as pawns in a bogus war waged for the Military industrial complex.

Guest Author :: Jeff DeLuca Introduces Peace and Next President of the United States, Kucinich

Any student of history can tell you that never has a foreign power ever won a Civil war and there is no reason to believe that this time will be any different.

It is nothing less than laughable that George Bush, a man so contemptuous of history and historical precedent, a man who rejected even the very mention of Vietnam in comparing Iraq until recently is now invoking Vietnam as an example of why we need to stay.

Condoleezza Rice even said in an interview with Tim Russert, when asked about her plans for her future, "I don't know. I'm a terrible long term planner." Now she tells us.

There would be no greater tragedy than to allow the results of the kind of imcompetency shown by the Bush/Cheney Regime to pass to a new administration untouched by the hand of accountability.

We must keep the pressure n Congress to do the right thing regardless of political interests. Real People's lives are at stake.

1/3 of soldiers returning from Iraq have some sort of psychological damage. We've known for a long time that soldiers can only experience sustained combat conditions for 6 months at a time. We're now deploying for 15 months at a time. This vicious cycle has to end. It has to end now and we are the only ones who can make it so.

But before I introduce the distinguished gentleman from Ohio, I want to leaver you with this. Peace only begins with getting out of Iraq. We can't live under the false illusion that our work is done after the troops come home. Peace goes beyond stopping war. We have to end the "every man for himself" mentality that dominates America.

We have to continue to work towards equality. We have to remain involved and keep each other informed. Lest we wake one day having lost the freedom we took for granted, to the hands of tyranny, that wait in the shadows of apathy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, a man who has never wavered in his opposition to this war, the Congressman from the 10th District of Ohio, and just maybe the next President of the United States, Dennis Kucinich!!