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[Tina Cunningham]

I completely agree with you Ms. Huskey.....thank you

Tina Cunningham


--- Melynda Huskey <mghuskey@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Five children under five years of age were killed in
> that van.  Five babies 
> and children that I'd like to believe Don Kaag
> didn't intend to include in 
> the obscene phrase "not a major loss to the gene
> pool."
> 
> 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.
> 
> The shame of this war rests on all of us:  it's our
> war.  We invaded Iraq in 
> pursuit of--what?  Peace?  Liberation?  Oil?  I
> don't know.  Whatever it 
> was, it wasn't worth the brief agony of those
> children or the lifelong 
> suffering of those soldiers.  It wasn't worth the
> dehumanization that makes 
> it possible for anyone here at home to dismiss their
> pain as "too bad" for 
> them.
> 
> Melynda Huskey
> 
> "We utterly deny all outward wars and strife, and
> fightings with outward 
> weapons, for any end, or under any pretense
> whatsoever: this is our 
> testimony to the whole world."
> Quaker Declaration of 1660
> 
> 
> 
>
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