one was too much for me, too

Cindy Sheehan addresses us.

Before you start reading, grab a box of tissues.

Comments

  1. Crabbi23 October 2005 at 10:05

    It's all too much. Sometimes I wish I believed in hell and a vengeful god. If anyone deserves to burn, it's this administration. I'd settle for life in prison, though.

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  2. James Redekop23 October 2005 at 13:10

    You may have heard that the Quakers are organizing a series of vigils and memorials for the day the count hits 2000.

    The ever-bizarre Michelle Malkin characterized the memorials thus:

    THE GHOULS OF THE LEFT

    They support the troops... by partying over their deaths.

    Sick.

    But it's par for the course.

    How can you deal with people who think like Malkin?

    Of course, what sort of clear thinking do you really expect from a Japanese-American famous for writing a book defending the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII?

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  3. barefoot hiker25 October 2005 at 07:56

    It's a beautiful statement. Cindy Sheehan is such a brave person, risking the pain and defamation she does by speaking out. I also want to salute her for remembering the mothers of Iraq... so often forgotten when even those among us remember only the fallen 2000. The mothers and fathers of Iraq feel just as keenly those things one of those mothers Cindy quoted feels. But many many thousands more of them have been forced to feel it. How many thousands more have died "saved" from Saddam than would have suffered and died even under his tyranny? How can that ever be set right? I don't think it can. It's not hyperbole... there are people in the United States today who are, quite literally, war criminals... but circumstances almost guarantee they will die warm and safe in their luxurious beds. It's enough to make me pray that there really is a Purgatory, where the suffering they have caused will be reviewed for them in its tiniest detail for year after year until they finally understand and sincerely repent, and only then will they be worthy of forgiveness. But that's probably just a fairytale, and justice is a scarce commodity in this universe.

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  4. laura k25 October 2005 at 08:26

    Say it.

    I used to love that now-popular quote from Theodore Parker (a theologian who greatly influenced Martin Luther King Jr.): "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice".

    Then I decided I liked it so much because I wished it were true.

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