This March 19th will be 5 years of the Iraq war. Consequently the prescient GodlessLiberalHomo has come up with a blogswarm and inveigled me into helping getting it going. Neither he nor I own this, we're just getting it going, this is everyone's who wants to participate. So you may have questions, what is a blogswarm?
This blogswarm will promote blog postings opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a full withdrawal of foreign occupying forces in Iraq. Five years of an illegal and catastrophic war is five years too many. On the March 19 anniversary of the conquest of Iraq by the Bush Administration, there needs to be a loud volume of voices countering the pro-war propaganda from far too many politicians and corporate media outlets.
Q. How do I become involved?
Go to the swarm homeblog march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com and- Post a comment with your blog's title and URL. If you join up by the fifth anniversary of mass actions against the war, February 15, 2008, you will be included in the listing of "Charter Blogs" displayed on the home blogs menu.
Q. Hey, how about some badges? I'm glad you asked-
You can just save them to your computer and post onto your blog linking to
http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/
...if you wish. Making up your own badges/promotions is heartily encouraged, which leads to...
Q. How do I help promote the blogswarm to make it an enormous chorus of disapproval for the Iraq war ? Well for now the basic approach is the well worn spreading the word by commenting on blogs you frequent/know of, leaving information about the blogswarm and including a link to the homeblog http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/ and emailing your friends/contacts.
Q. What is the point? Wars are bad, we should be doing less of them. It isn't rocket science. The blogswarm is not a replacement for other actions it is as well as anything else you might be doing. Around the 5th anniversary you can be sure the same people who lied us into this war will be unapologetically continuing their propaganda and unless we counter that there will be more conflict and more death. Specifically for Iraq it could mean a long term occupation that would most likely not end until the last drop of oil is sucked out of the ground, that would mean an unending insurgency and counter insurgency which is the dirtiest most brutal kind of warfare there is. Quite apart from the fact that the invasion was an illegal war of aggression and it continues killing people on all sides and causing generational damage in all those involved, from homeless veterans to traumatised children.
Q. And on the day? Write something or several somethings relevant to the the Iraq war, raise a chorus of voices. Let's not be having to do this for the 10th anniversary. In fact this is an election year in the US, let's not let year 6 go by without withdrawals.
Q. This question and answer format is a bit overused, unoriginal and tedious isn't it? Quite possibly, just so long as you participate in countering the pro-war narrative, you really need to do nothing more than post about the Iraq war on/around the 19th March and notify http://march19-blogswarm.blogspot.com/ of it, so more people see your work and thoughts, ideas and passions are exchanged and shared. There are forces in the world who want war, people who rarely pay the price but often reap a profit, we can do better than let them run the Earth.
"Freedom of the press only applies to people who own printing presses. And now everyone with net access owns a printing press."
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