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>Mr. Hansen,

I guess this is where we come right down to the heart of the matter of war.  We 
have chosen, yes chosen, to take violent and agressive action against other 
human beings.  The question which you phrased as follows  
>" 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?"

Or more bluntly "Do we value all humans equally"? Can we weigh one Iraqi mother 
against one American soldier? Don't their families grieve as deeply, aren't 
their children equally affected by the brutal loss of a loved one? Or maybe 
just being American makes one a little more sacred, more important? 
> 
The thing about war is that we are ALL victims. There are no winners. 

My uncle once explained to me that it was "necessary" to drop the bomb on 
Hiroshima because if we hadn't killed "all those Japanese lots more Americans 
would have died".  He was able to believe that Americans were more important 
than Japanese.  I never understood that and I never will. 

In my family we "cut our eyeteeth" so to speak on pictures of the Holocaust,and 
my father was in Vietnam. I have been in the California mountains while the war 
games were going on and can remember the sounds even though they were miles 
out.  Don't think for one minute that those of us opposing the war on 
humanitarian grounds thought it would be clean and neat.  It is because war is 
horrible and ugly and scarring physically and emotionally that we oppose it so 
adamantly. Even if the military objective is attained, many of us will not be 
celebrating.
> 
>Heather Jordan
Hayfields Farm
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