We're still all still sitting around feeling scared. Maybe scared of the invisible terrorists with smallpox and dirty bombs, but also scared of speaking up. That, or maybe we just don't know what to say. It feels like nobody is listening when we say "What about Osama Bin Laden? Whatever happened to Afghanistan? What does Iraq have to do with this terrorism thing? And where did my civil liberties go?" I feel like we're all sitting around looking at each other waiting for somebody else to start the protests, we're waiting for somebody else to say something. Well, people are starting to protest. Speak up.

If everybody keeps on being complacent sheep resigned to the idea that Bush can do whatever he wants, we're going to war. We're going to send thousands of American men and women to Iraq to get killed because some greedy businessmen (one of whom happens to be the President of the United States of America) want to make some more money. We're going to let hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Iraqi people die because we want to make sure American corporations have access to Iraqi oil pipelines. We're going to become the enemy of the entire Muslim world and provoke further terrorist acts by fighting a bloody unilateral war against a nation that hasn't really done anything to provoke a war since the late eighties.

George Bush wants to convince us that Saddam Hussein is evil and must be overthrown. He says this is justification, expects us to nod and smile and be patriots and wave our little American flags as he sends tens of thousands of American teenagers to bomb the Iraqi people (again) so that we can ensure the continuous flow of our god-given right as Americans: $1-a-gallon gas.

Where is the outrage?

Why is everybody so fucking complacent?

Stop what you're doing right now. You're reading this, obviously you have some free time.

Find out who your congresspeople are and write them an email telling them you are against the invasion of Iraq. Can't think of what to say? "I vote and I am against an invasion of Iraq" is probably enough. This takes five minutes, they even give you a nice little web form. Ignore the credit card stuff at the end, you can send an email for free.

If you feel like sending a postcard, download this and mail it to the address you found on the Senate or House websites.

Are you reading this at work? Since you're already geeking on your employer's dime, take advantage of the fact you're not paying the phone bill and call your congressperson at 202-224-3121.

If you live in Texas (or even if you don't) sign the Voices for Peace Statement of Conscience for Peace. Five minutes. You don't even have to march anywhere. This is the least you can do.

See? That wasn't so hard. It was almost as easy as not voting in that last presidential election. Remember that one? The one between the two guys who were pretty equally uninteresting so it didn't matter who you voted for so you didn't?

Anyway. It's not hard to find out what else you can do to try and stop this war. Find out about the protests and peace vigils going on in your area. Get off the computer and spend five minutes to try and save the lives of a few thousand people you've never met.

Please?