No, you weren’t. I asked you concretetly what I should do, and over and over again you refused to answer.

agreed = i did not outline a 12 point manifesto for you to follow - but i made it clear every time that i believed using speech and public pressure was the desire.

And in the end, I found that that’s because you don’t actually have something that could happen, that you want.

a public inquiry is impossible? i hope for all our sake it is not.

That is not in the least bit what I’m claiming. I am saying that getting an inquiry into US war crimes into Iraq in the current political environment, with the GOP in control of the house and possibly gaining control of the senate, is impossible, or only possible if you’re willing to horse-trade something really big to the GOP. They pretty much hate Bush now, so it’s possible, but only if you give them something huge. When I asked you what you were willing to trade, you didn’t answer.

i agree the house is intransigent. that does not make fighting for it worthless. just my opinion.

When I asked you what you were willing to trade, you didn’t answer.

i would be unwilling to trade for justice. justice is a virtue in its own right, and should stand as such.

You don’t have a plan. Using speech and public pressure will not get an inquiry into the Iraq war. It didn’t prevent the Iraq War, either. It has power, but it also has limitations. This would seem trivially obvious to me.

i disagree with you - i see the value of public pressure every single day. I am actively engaged in the use of it to encourage social change.