We Are Many Page #4

You can see pieces of it here and there.

Units are being mobilized.

Tanks are loading on ships.

The Marines are loading up.

You can see pieces of it.

The bombing increased over Iraq

about 500 percent

during the fall of 2002...

with the purpose of trying

to goad Saddam Hussein

into retaliating,

to give us a reason to go to war.

And then I saw that. I was witness to that.

But the President's still saying,

you know, "It may not..."

"I hope it doesn't come to war."

President Bush knows the real battle

is to win support of the United Nations.

When I saw Bush on TV saying,

"We're gonna try diplomacy first,"

but then I saw the reality on the ground,

something didn't sit right with me,

and I knew there was more to the story.

On some level, globally,

people knew that this was not true,

and I think that's what led to February 15th

and the massive show on the streets

was because people felt

like something's not right.

Before our kids start coming home

from Iraq in body bags

and women and children

start dying in Baghdad,

I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

We had never raised money for an ad before,

and we proposed this

"Let the Inspections Work" ad,

sent it out to our members hoping to raise,

you know, $20,000, $40,000.

And we raised $400,000.

And we made the ads,

and we figured out everything

we could possibly do

to build opposition to going to war.

We organized demonstrations,

and it got bigger and bigger and bigger.

Packing the streets to stop the war,

the organizers of today's rally

claim 300,000 people turned out

to show their anger over Iraq.

I am in total opposition to the war.

I think it's an obscenity,

and I think Blair is a scoundrel.

The troop movements began to get underway,

and that's when we really moved quickly

to form the coalitions

in the US and internationally.

It took a lot of courage for people

to raise their voices early on,

prior to February 15th 2003.

People were afraid to speak.

They were afraid of being called unpatriotic.

The Bush Administration and Saddam Hussein

are not the only ones

cranking up the talk about war.

So are American opponents of war with Iraq.

We have a President

that is sending the ships,

sending the war machines,

sending the bombs, sending the troops.

And look what we have growing here at home.

A mass, beautiful movement

that's gonna stop them

from dropping those bombs.

I'm becoming consumed with the thought

that our country may soon be at war,

waged partially in my brother's name

and the names of thousands

killed last year in the terror attacks.

We had to do something.

To sit back and not do anything

was unbearable.

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