Sunday, July 30, 2006

Anti-War Drumbeat

I read a sad, sad article about an animal shelter & the many fighting dogs that they had to kill, including some puppies. It makes me think of a poem a dear friend wrote years ago that ended with the line:
I can't keep a dog alive.
I get that feeling a lot these days. There are signs, however, that better days are ahead. Here's a column from the St. Petersburg Times that made me feel better, even though its subject matter is Iraq.
History is likely to judge George W. Bush harshly for this foreign policy catastrophe, and it should. This war, like the one in Vietnam, was started by blind and arrogant men who refused to listen to any general or diplomat who had the nerve to warn them about what they were getting into.
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Army Spc. David Fulcher, 22, a medic from Lynchburg, Va., told the Post: "They say we're here and we've given them Iraqis freedom, but really, what is that? You've got kids here who can't go to school. You've got people here who don't have jobs anymore. You've got people here who don't have power. You know, so yeah, they got freedom now, but when they didn't have freedom, everybody had a job."

If only the White House could cut through the fog of war and see things as clearly as the soldiers on the ground in Iraq.

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