[Vision2020] CNN Breaking News
Tina Cunningham
kittz_cat@yahoo.com
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:23:03 -0800 (PST)
Mr. Hansen Wrote:
"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?"
The widows of the soldiers that may be sent home know
the risks involved. Their husbands know the risks
involved, and accept them whole-heartedly.
The women and children, however, had no choice in the
matter.
We had a choice at one time to wait for UN approval.
We chose to disreguard the WORLD, and arrogantly
started this war. Now we are perceived and tyrants.
Tina Cunningham
--- thansen@moscow.com wrote:
> 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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