by Dharmacharya Gurudas Sunyatananda

Created on: January 14, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

Upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, on December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told the audience in Oslo, Norway:

"Civilisation and violence are antithetical concepts Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation."

Dr. King, in his own words, "refused to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history". Neither do we.

Recognising the point of the Mad Monarch's recent "surge speech" amounts to little more than a propagandasing effort to bolster support for the criminal colonial occupation of Iraq, and to pave the way for more human rights violations in Iraq and the entire Middle Eastern region, we will not allow the BushCo Cabal to continue getting away with its agenda of murder and destruction without protest.

In his megalomaniacal hubris, Bush has demonstrated once more a complete disregard for the voice of the majority of American people, who oppose the war and want to see an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq. He's counting on the resignation of the American spirit, in which those who oppose his war-for-profit, believing that there is no easy way to withdrawal, will concede to enduring two more years of bloodshed and loss of innocent lives.

For those who were listening the other night, Bush also indicated that his agenda may well include pursuing the colonial conquest in Africa and Iran, as U.S. AC-130 gun ships continue their strike on the people of Somalia. Right now, an armada of U.S. war ships, bearing thousands of troops, sit off the Indian Ocean awaiting word to attack. Simultaneously, the Pentagon, under the direction of its new warlord, is strengthening its land and sea forces surrounding Iran.

It's time for Congress to be put on notice. It's time that we make it clear to the Democrats that we will not be satisfied with soundbytes and press statements opposing the BushCo agenda. Talk is cheap, and the lives being lost and damaged in Iraq deserve more than Congressional hearings to condemn the President's "surge proposal". Only immediate and decisive action will address the

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