Reply #53: Several Scenes

[GiovanniC]

• The Representative who, when asked if she had a signature of a Senator on her objection said pointedly, "The Senate is MISSING." I was so mad, even at my own Democratic senators, and at Kerry and Edwards and Kennedy and Byrd and EVERYBODY in the Senate. One fucking signature. One person to heroically stand up for Democracy. I know it wouldn't have made much of a practical difference. But someone should have stood up.
  
  
• The faces of the people as they watched the destruction on 9/11, particularly (you might have to watch it again) the old man who stood watching, just about to cry.
  
  
• The mother reading the letter from her son, and also when she stood in Washington about to collapse, saying, "I need my son!"
  
  
• The images of everyday life in Iraq as Bush was giving his address about attacking the country. Showing, as so many other places will not, that the people of Iraq are PEOPLE, not just animals or barbarians. They laugh, they play, they get married. And we attacked them for no reason.