"Absolutely Nothing" Warning: Graphic images of people EXPERIENCING war...

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9. Thank you for sharing this. "...and now I'll never be totally right again"...

The emotional baggage has to be considered, doesn't it?

There is not an American alive today who has experienced bombs and bloodletting and white phosphorus weapons and giving birth to monsters because of the depleted uranium - all of it, right here in their own community, on their own street. Real war is only an abstraction to them.

And I fully believe the people like Cheney and GWB and Rummy and others sit somewhere and jag-off to films and pictures of the horror. It's an aphrodisiac to them.


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My mother lived in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed. She lost both her parents, within hours of each other, to the typhus epidemic. And that is the smallest part of her story.

She carried severe emotional baggage for the rest of her life that impacted me and my children and those around her. For 100 years.

When I look at that little girl in her mother's arms I think of my mother, and the people who are likely to suffer the consequences of what she experienced for the next hundred years. But no one ever thinks of that.

I curse the people who perpetrate these wars. May they (and that includes Americans) rot in everlasting Hell for all eternity.