Aug, 4, 2008
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Says thinking about Iraq War is painful
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LETTER
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
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I don't want to think about the Iraq war.
Did 107 people really get killed and 302 wounded in four days last week? Did a Iraq vet really take his own life? And what about that torture article by Rich Lang in Real Change? Have we "broken covenant with humanity?" Did that Conservative British MP really resign after 21 years because he couldn't handle the thought of citizens being held in detention for 42 days without being told their charges? So, the Magna Carta guaranteed the freedom of the individual from arbitrary detention for nearly 800 years?
And by the way, it's been two years now since we marked the rape and killing of 14-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza and killing of her family by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. She would have been 17 on Aug. 19.
Former President Eisenhower said it well: "This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
I don't want to think about the Iraq war, but I am. I feel like screaming.
Lisa Marcus
Bellingham










