I'm Proud to Be a Moveon.org Member!

I have personally been a member of moveon.org for some time, and am very proud of the affiliation. In a slightly funny twist (if it wasn't such a serious topic) I actually wrote an article using the General "betray us" line before I knew moveon.org was using it. Like minds, I suppose. The ad placed by www.moveon.org in the New York Times has drawn the ire of all of the expected right wing mouthpieces, as should be expected. Whenever something questions there take on the world, they are quick to the vitriolic attacks. So be it, we still have freedom of speech, for now anyway. The problem isn't what they spew, it's that so many are so easily misled as to believe them. That's where moveon.org comes in.

Their mission, more than any other, is to engage more people with a progressive mindset to become involved in the process. If we have learned one thing, it is that there are some (that magical 30 percent) who won't listen, who will let the right wing machine drive the country right off the metaphorical cliff. It's the other 70 percent, the people who aren't afraid to think for themselves once in awhile, that moveon.org hopes to influence. Sure, some of them will be put off by the direct and thought-provoking way moveon.org challenges people to look at what is really happening. Still, with each passing day, more Americans accept that challenge, and question the Bush Administration.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking Americans to consider if they are being "betrayed." Not when the general, no matter how highly decorated, is repeating talking points Bush used months ago instead of giving a complete and full picture of the situation in Iraq. Not when the general cannot even say whether or not he thinks actions in Iraq are making America more secure. Does anyone remember Colin Powell, the man who we were told should be unassailable, when he went to the United Nations to gin us up for an invasion? Those who dared not agree then were talked about the same way as moveon is now.