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Why Do I Write This Blog???

The easiest (and probably the most honest) answer to that question is: I don't know. It all started in the summer of 2005, when I went to Crawford, Texas ( a.k.a. the home of the prez's ranch, a.k.a. the home of Camp Casey) to support Cindy Sheehan. I wanted the world to know that, contrary to what one could read in the mainstream media, the peace movement was alive and well and large numbers of Americans did not support the war in Iraq. I wanted people to know that thousands of Americans were willing to travel to Texas and tolerate the heat, humidity, and bugs in order to support a grieving mother whose new purpose was to shine a light on the lies that led to the war and to bring home our troops so that no other mother would have to know the pain that she felt.

Over time, this blog has become more of an exploration of who I am, my spirituality, and how life works. I love life's complexities, exploring the shades of gray. I want to, as Rainier Maria Rilke said,

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Maybe my blog is just one big question about what is needed in order for people to take the time to love and cherish each other and our earth. Maybe someday, I will "live along some distant day into the answer."

In the meantime, thank you for joining me on my journey. I welcome you to share yours with me

 

Monday, December 25, 2006

Christmas 2007
2972 Soldiers Have Died in Iraq
Where's the Peace & Goodwill?

So far, this has been a particularly deadly month for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. This past October was really bad (110) - the worst in almost two years - and the numbers for December may come close to matching it.

And we're still not winning friends and influencing people.

According to Iraq's interior minister (as reported by the AP), over 12,000 Iraqi police officers have been killed since Saddam was ousted.

Iraq has (or maybe had) a population a little less than 1/10th the U.S. population (26 million, compared to 300 million). For simplification, lets just use the 1/10th figure.

If we were occupied by another country, and as a result, 120,000 of our police officers had been killed in less than four years, how would we be feelin' about now?

What would your life be like if 6,650,000 U.S. citizens had been killed in the past 3 3/4 years? (665,000 Iraqi civilians have now died from the war.) Most likely, some of your friends and family would not be with you this Christmas day.

I know, I know... we've got to kill them over there so that they won't kill us over here. Better them than us...

Reminds me of a recent Onion article titled Israel Bombs Anti-Semitism Out Of Lebanon.

Israel will not bomb any Anti-Semitism out of Lebanon and we will not bomb the hating of our freedom out of Iraq.

Of course freedom doesn't have anything to do with why our soldiers are in Iraq and giving up their lives this Christmas.

posted by Carol at 10:01 AM

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