[Vision2020] CNN Breaking News

[Troy Merrill]

Mr Hansen,

I don't believe ms. Huskey or most others opposing the war thought this war
would be sanitary and painless.  It is precisely because war is about
killing and death that we oppose it.

Troy Merrill

----- Original Message -----
From: <thansen@moscow.com>
To: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>; <dkaag@turbonet.com>;
<vision2020@moscow.com>
Cc: <tomh@uidaho.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] CNN Breaking News


> 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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