Do Nothing Congress Leaves Us Wanting

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In 2005, more than 12,000 people trekked to Crawford TX to support Cindy Sheehan and to gain energy and strength from one another. Many of them went back to their own communities and have worked for peace ever since. Here is an essay from one of those original people.

It did us no good to unseat half of Congress in the last election, and Party doesn't seem to matter much. The Democrats have had enough on this Administration to throw most of them in the Hague for at least six years. The Enron and other scandals, and Cheney's secret meetings with these people were only the beginning, and were completely overshadowed by 911 and subsequent events, such as the Iraq War and the use of our military as human sacrifices for the Energy Industry, not to mention trillions of tax dollars and debts incurred in the process.

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