The Filibuster Rally-Vigil~Day 1,082 of the War in Iraq

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Reactions to ABC's recent rare footage taken in Iraq:

"We got grenades going off, we've got an IED blowing up your vehicle … and then, you are expected to go back in those four to six, four to five hours … and relax!" said Cpl. Joshua Lake, 2nd Infantry Division. "You just don't have time to do it. Your body never gets to come down. You're always on that heightened sense of alertness."

Until Monday night's report, Lake's mother had not heard her son's voice in a month.

"He's up for hours at a time. He can't sleep because his body is so tense when he comes back, and you know there's no way of laying down," Debbie Lake-McMahon told ABC News. "He said that he lays there and his body just trembles."

We also received hundreds of e-mails from viewers, including one who said the report was "so disturbing that I had nightmares after what I saw."

For another, the nightmare is real.

"I am the mother of the driver of the Bradley you see upside down and burning," she wrote. "He was 19 years old and could see the futility of Iraq invasion and occupation."



This is Dick Durbin's personal 'all-nighter' call sheet:

Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) at (202) 224-5641

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) at (202) 224-2523

Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) at (202) 224-6621

Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) at (202) 224-4814

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at (202) 224-2541

Senator John Sununu (R-NH) at (202) 224-2841

Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) at (202) 224-3353

Senator John Warner (R-VA) at (202) 224-2023

Thank you for letting Republican Senators know that the American people are behind tonight's "all-nighter" and the Levin/Reed Amendment.

UPDATE (11:15pm ET): Some people have reported that these Senators' voicemail boxes are full. If you are a constituent of any of these Senators, please visit their official Senate sites to send them an email -- and please keep trying to place your calls tonight and tomorrow morning as voicemail boxes are cleared out. Thanks for your overwhelming response!


If our troops can't rest, Iraqi civilians can't rest, neither should the senate hold outs.

Also note, there has been one vote already -- there will be at least one more -- and among the 'no' votes for the Levin-Reed amendment was(no surprise)Joe Lieberman. Ask your reps to now finally boot him from any Dem committee positions, unless they want to make him the head of trash collection on the hill!

What a great idea that rally was.