Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 367

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   RubDMC on July 30, 2006 at 12:39 pm

   

   The candle that DianeL first lit many months ago, and which has become such an important part of these diaries since, is still available here.

   You can copy that image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), craft your own image, and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment – as a sign that you know, but do not approve, and are not resigned.

   “It is like trying to ignite – to pass on the responsibilities as much as possible to everyone else.” – Ravi Shankar

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   dada on July 30, 2006 at 12:41 pm

   

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   Damnit Janet on July 30, 2006 at 12:46 pm

   

   I simply can no longer listen to the justification, the excuses and the self-told lies from anyone or anything … that War is right.

   War is wrong. Killing is wrong. All that create it, and all those who fight in it. It’s terrorism. Period.

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     BrendaStewart on July 30, 2006 at 1:42 pm

     thank you….hugs  I see her reflections more every day, can’t you?  hugs

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   olivia on July 30, 2006 at 12:48 pm

   It is mendacious to make moral distinction between the unspeakable brutality of terrorism and the indiscriminate carnage of war and occupation.  Both kinds of violence are unacceptable.  We cannot support one and condemn the other.
   ~Arundhati Roy

   peace and justice

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     Damnit Janet on July 30, 2006 at 12:50 pm

     I read that very quote last night before I feel asleep.

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       olivia on July 30, 2006 at 12:52 pm
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     BrendaStewart on July 30, 2006 at 1:43 pm

     Ms Roy is excellent.  I could listen to her all day long and yet crave more.  Thanks Olivia…hugs

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       olivia on July 30, 2006 at 1:52 pm

       {{{{{{{Brenda}}}}}}}

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   jimstaro on July 30, 2006 at 1:21 pm

   
   Light A Candle For
   Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
   and For The Children – Innocence Lost,
   And Future We May Have Given Them!

   Families Joining Anti-War Group
   July 28, 2006 By Karen Jowers, Army Times staff writer [Excerpts]

   For some families of soldiers in the 172nd Stryker Brigade, the July 27 announcement of the extension of their tour in Iraq was just too much.
   Some of them are joining the ranks of the anti-war group Military Families Speak Out. “We’ve had a whole group of people who have joined since the announcement,” said Nancy Lessin, co-founder of the group. She was working to get an exact count at press time, and said e-mails are still coming in to the organization.
   “They are having meetings at families’ homes,” she said. “Many family members hold their breath until their loved one gets home,” and then speak out, she said.
   “But something like this puts them over the edge.
   “There has never before been a group of military families breaking the code of silence like this,” she said. “It speaks to the horrific nature of the invasion and now occupation of Iraq.”

   Four Marines killed in action in Iraq, Gunmen attack Sunni mosques
   CNN

   Four U.S. Marines were killed in combat Thursday in Iraq’s Anbar province, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military announced. Three of those Marines were assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, according to a military statement on Saturday. On Friday, the U.S. military announced the death of the fourth Marine, who was assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5. Thirty-eight U.S. troops have died in Iraq during July. Since ! the start of the war, 2,565 U.S. troops have died in Iraq. Seven Department of Defense civilian employees have also died in Iraq…

   Lebanon oil slick ‘worst environmental disaster’ in Med
   by Sammy Ketz Sat Jul 29, 8:19 AM ET

   BEIRUT (AFP) – The Mediterranean is threatened by its worst ever environmental disaster after Israel’s bombing of a power plant in Lebanon sent thousands of tonnes of fuel gushing into the sea, the environment minister charged.

   Sectarian Torture Centers and Jails
   Samia Falasteen

   …What the U.S. has done is inflict the worst possible crime in the name of “humanity” by forcing their troops and allies into Iraq, killing innocent civilians and demolishing a society, while stripping the Arab identity of Iraq. It is a nation under siege. They have imposed imprisonment of the Iraqi people, while creating sectarian militias. Moamar, an Iraqi Human Rights Organization just revealed that there are 34 prisons under the sectarian and ethnic armed ! militias across Iraq, and that these prisons are under their control and administration. In addition, there are nearly 3,500 Iraqi prisoners in these jails, and many of these prisoners are considered missing. The prisoners are in poor health; food that is offered to them is not healthy and not enough…

   From
   Gush Shalom

   BACK TO 1982

   THEN: The war was prepared well in advance.
   THIS TIME: The same.

   THEN: We went to war only to protect “the Peace of Galilee”.
   THIS TIME: We go to war to protect Haifa and Afula, too.

   THEN: We waited for a provocation (the attempt on the life of Ambassador Argov).
   THIS TIME: We waited for a provocation (the capture of two soldiers).

   THEN: “We shall advance only 40 KM in order to eliminate the Katyushas.”
   THIS TIME: “We shall advance only a few kilometers in order to eliminate the rockets.”

   THEN: Sharon acted behind the back of the cabinet.
   THIS TIME: Olmert-Peretz-Halutz act behind the back of the ministers.

   THEN: We destroyed Lebanon.
   THIS TIME: We are destroying Lebanon.

   THEN: Only the PLO profited from the war. A few years later they returned to Palestine.
   THIS TIME: Only Hezbollah will profit from the war. Their prestige in the Arab world increases every day.

   THEN: We were stuck in the quagmire for 18 years.

   FOR HOW LONG SHALL WE BE STUCK THIS TIME?

   GI SPECIAL 4G30: ‘The Slow Fuse Is Lit’.pdf

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     BrendaStewart on July 30, 2006 at 1:44 pm

     thanks Jim…hugs….I know you and I are on the right page here..You have so much knowledge to offer us to become more intellegent on things.  Just thanks and hugs…

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     blueneck on July 30, 2006 at 1:53 pm

     Blue Inkblots, written by the mother of a soldier deployed in Iraq.  Must read…

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   BrendaStewart on July 30, 2006 at 1:47 pm

   

   I light this one candle just to show my ernest desire for peace, everywhere in the world.  This death and distruction must stop…Thanks Rub, you serve us well, with your spotlight on this atrocity.  hugs.

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   BrendaStewart on July 30, 2006 at 1:57 pm

   just remember that the names you know of are those released from the pentagon not in actuality of deaths.

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   alohaleezy on July 30, 2006 at 6:05 pm

   to this administration, including the pres burn in hell for what they have done to this world.