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Greetings: Below are
links to three different sites about the same military campaign push currently
winding down in Iraq Washington
Post: US stages massive raid at Fallujah http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60287-2003Jun14.html?nav=hptop_tb NYT: US Forces
launch raids across Iraq to quell uprisings @ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/international/worldspecial/15ARRE.html BBC: US Forces
raid flashpoint town http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2991188.stm Attached is a
version of events that are said to occurred the day before. It describes raids more from the point
of view of the residents, rather than the military perspective. Unfortunately, it does not list time
and place as well as the other three. If you see
more of this story with better collaboration, I would be interested to know. Not that I am an investigative reporter
or anything, but it is important that while we employ the internet for our own
purposes of conversation, education and networking, that we utilize the reach
available to verify news like this and other important events in our lives. A younger
cousin sent this to me. He was
upset wondering why we don’t hear these stories told on CNN. He was speaking rhetorically. I replied that in due time, we would
hear more of stories like this, just as we did at the end of Vietnam and after
Desert Storm because the soldiers will come home with them. They have to live with the full drama
of war more than any of us do. It’s
just another reminder that they say beforehand, there are good reasons given
which people believe that justify going to war. But afterwards, there are no good reasons for war. Sadly, in modern warfare, it is
civilians who suffer most and they will be telling their stories also. We can only hope that right now we are
not creating another Gaza or Ramallah, another My Lai, another lesson not
learned from history. While these
lessons may not make it into the history textbooks we impose upon our children,
we adults must tell the full story, both in conversational teaching and supporting
it when we see it presented truthfully in art, which is a nation’s conscience
and soul. - KWC |
CHINADAILY As US fans out in Iraq violence on rise.doc
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