War, war all the time

We ought to know by now that when George W. Bush says he is off to the mid-east to make a peace deal that we should not believe him. Every word he uses has some other meaning to him that it would be good some day to find a lexicon for. In this case, too much evidence is pointing to the fact that he is off to the mid-east to drum up support for his ill-advised need for war with Iran. Monies have been allocated to the Saudis for weapons and to the Israelis of course too.
However, our misspoken president seems to be gaining no comrades in his way to war with Iran but I don't think he cares much or that much of the kind of discouragement he is hearing will deter him.
That being said, where are these mainstream candidates that are so interested in change? Where are their words of warning against what the president is about to do? I don't hear it. But I do know what Dennis kuinich is saying and has been saying all the time, with no wobbles (and that is a new euphemism for flip-flops) in his thinking. He voted against the war with Iraq and he has voted against the funding of the war and he is not wavering.
So you change agents, where are you truly? What do you offer us your intended receivers of these miraculous changes that are guaranteed to make our lives better once the world has anointed you as king or queen of the world? I am waiting to hear how these changes you plan to institute are going to influence the events that are occurring right now as you run around the country promising something that no one really wants.
Do you really think this country wants real change? Do you think that this is anything other than some kind of bland and meaningless wand you are waving at us and hoping to hypnotize us into believing we want our lives to change, that we want to do the work to change?
Certainly, no one has pushed as hard for the real change this country needs than Dennis Kucinich and yet everyone is afraid of him. Afraid of him and his ideas because what they ask us to do is to really commit ourselves to the real changes that need to be made in the fundamental structure of the corporatization of this country. And most of us are just too damn afraid of that because it might mean that what we have been fed and feeding ourselves for so long turns out to be really toxic and we have been complicit in its use.
So, think about the guy running around the mid-east thinking he is fooling anyone that he wants peace when what he wants is war. Think about that group of candidates running around the country thinking they are offering change when what they are offering is the semblance of a word and nothing more.
Then think about Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich out there on the trail truly listening to the problems of all peoples and making them see what the real change could be.
In that way we cannot give up hope because they have not. I urge you to think hard about who you vote for not just in the primaries but in the election as well.
Strength through Peace.