From: Bruce Arnold [bruce@ldrlongdistancerider.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 7:01 AM
To: 'Bruce@LdrLongDistanceRider.com'
Subject: NO YOU CAN'T ... plus ... THE AFGHAN RAG

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PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"No You Can't!" Protesters To Tell Obama at December 12 Rally

Peace Movement Groups Unite Against Obama War Escalation - Warning of Reprisals to Troop Surge

WASHINGTON DC, December 1, 2009 - More than 100 leading peace activists have announced an "Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally" at the White House on December 12, from 11:00am to 4:00pm, to reject President Obama's announced military escalation in Afghanistan. The rally is organized by End US Wars, a newly formed coalition of national and grass-roots antiwar organizations, with endorsements from leading peace activists.

Rally organizers are calling for the left to end its support for Obama now that he has committed to a troop surge, and to condemn and oppose Obama's war policy. In addition, the process will begin to replace Obama with an anti-war candidate, and to remove any pro-war legislators. Protests will intensify against U.S. war involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and any other countries. 

Speakers include: Cynthia McKinney, Sen. Mike Gravel, Kathy Kelly, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Coy McKinney, Debra Sweet, Brian Becker, Mathis Chiroux, Lynne Williams, Hon. Betty Hall, Elaine Brower, Marian Douglas, Michael Knox, Ralph Lopez, Ron Fisher. Statements will also be read from Col. Ann Wright, Stephen Zunes and Granny D (turning 100). Jordan Page and Emma's Revolution will be among the musical performers.
 
End US Wars' "Open Letter to Obama," posted on the website, demands that Obama keep his promise and end the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars; call a cessation of Predator drone attacks over Pakistan; and begin immediate reconstruction and recovery in war-torn regions. 

Prior to the rally on Saturday, December 12 at 11 a.m. in Lafayette Park, the film "Rethink Afghanistan" will be shown Friday December 11, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at Busboys & Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  The video can be viewed online free in six parts here:

http://tinyurl.com/c8f8nk

For information, email: contact@enduswars.org or visit www.enduswars.org. For press inquiries, phone: 207-604-8988.

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THE AFGHAN RAG

( Original lyrics from "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"
a.k.a. "Vietnam Rag" by Country Joe McDonald,
revised and updated by Bruce Arnold )


Yo, wake up texters, listen in,
Uncle Sam's after more boogeymen;
Dubya left Barack in a terrible jam
Way over in Afghanistan.
So put down your iPhone and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun. 

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

Well come on, McChrystal, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta kill all those towel heads -
Though Muslims ain't who we should dread.
Our robber barons, they're the ones
Who blew the Towers to kingdom come. 

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

Huh! 

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Since 9-1-1, it's go-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
Supplying both sides with the tools of the trade.
Just hope if they grab a Pakistani bomb,
They drop it on Dick Cheney's lawn. 

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Send your child to Afghanistan.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your kid come home in a box. 

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die. 

--with apologies to Country Joe MacDonald
( http://www.countryjoe.com/feelmus.htm )

Source: http://tinyurl.com/ydpopxa 

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OilPeakalypse Now (The Oil Factor Behind 9/11 and the War on Terror):  http://tinyurl.com/yzhpdjr 

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F**K CLOUDMARK CENSORSHIP:  http://tinyurl.com/yk9dnt5