Coming Soon to a theater near you

Well, probably not a theater.

Representative John Conyers attended yesterday's [fill-in-the-blank] rally. To continue Greyhawk's weekend at the movies theme, looks like a new film is in the works.

Jane Fonda returned to the peace movement, calling upon Americans not to forget the lessons of Vietnam. I had a chance to speak to Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, who have also used their celebrity as movie stars to bring the media focus to the growing anti-war movement.

PDA, Code Pink and the Institute of Policy Studies all made significant contributions to the events today.

But perhaps the most powerful voices heard today were those from military families, grieving for lost loved ones. Their personal stories cut at your heart like nothing else.

I spoke with some filmmakers doing a piece for the Huffington Post today so I am hoping that you may get to hear directly from some of these military families on the pages here later.

Popcorn, anyone?

Melvin Laird on Iraq

via Appleton Pot

The brewing fight in Congress over continued funding of the war in Iraq will not be the country's first. It's an ominous reminder of 1975, when Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War three years after our combat troops had left.

With the assistance we promised South Vietnam in the 1972 Paris Accords — U.S. equipment, replacement parts and ammunition — it had won every major battle since we left. But Congress lost the will to keep our promise and killed the appropriation. The result was a bloodbath.

Re: Oh Boy....

(Updated: Now with EXTRA VOLUME!!!)

MilBlogs weekend at the movies continues with a vacation video from Nancy P & Co.

Update: At about the :55 second point in the video, a quick clip shows Ms Pelosi addressing the troops in Iraq: "...let's talk about the intelligence that got us into war... that'll be interesting to start with..." Whatever she said before or after that line is not on the video.

It's a very tricky situation for a GI in combat to engage a politician on this topic, but given that the Speaker began the discussion I believe this might be an appropriate and safe response:

"I'm not concerned about that. Whether they were there or not, I salute the president for the goal of removing weapons of mass destruction."

You can even credit the original source. It's Nancy Pelosi.