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[thansen@moscow.com]

Melynda Huskey stated:

"What I find so painfully horrific about this situation, which will multiply  
across Iraq as the war continues, is the destruction of everyone touched by 
it.  Those children are dead.  A pregnant woman was wounded but survived.  A 
man was seriously wounded and is expected to die.  None of them was armed.

And a group of very young soldiers--the average age of U.S. soldiers in this 
war is 19--will never recover from what they were forced by circumstance to 
do.   They will live with the blood of children on their hands.  What did they 
do to deserve that?  What rhetoric of liberation, or "support for the troops" 
can heal them?  Their humanity has been crushed, and they are as innocent as 
those dead children."

Set your watches back 30 years and this could be considered a direct quote 
about Vietnam with one major exception.  Returning troops were called "Baby 
Killers".

As much as I seriously hate saying this, Ms. Huskey, war is about killing and 
dying.  You shouldn't be chastising us for feeling this way.  You should place 
your blame in those that put these women and children in harms way:  The Iraqi 
Regime.

Which is more acceptable to you, Ms. Huskey?  Pitying those women and children 
that were forced into harm's way and died as a result?  Or packing up the 
belongings of three or four more dead soldiers to be sent to their widows?

As much as we would love to believe that war is sanitized and painless as CNN 
and ABC News present it, the ugly truth is that war isn't.

Take care and have hope,

Tom HAnsen
Moscow,
Idaho

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