Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 234

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   RubDMC on January 31, 2006 at 12:29 pm

   

   Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.

   ” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
   from Dirge Without Music
   by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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   dada on January 31, 2006 at 12:33 pm

   
   Peace

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   ask on January 31, 2006 at 12:48 pm

   
   100th British military death in Iraq

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   Damnit Janet on January 31, 2006 at 12:50 pm

   not sure I can stand it anymore. Heart is filled with so much sadness. Personally and Politically. It’s a huge weight that is now careening down the side of my cheeks in the form of salty tears.

   Can’t stand it but I have nowhere else to go but try to stop it – each day in some small way.

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   supersoling on January 31, 2006 at 1:14 pm

   

   In Memory of Mrs. King

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     Damnit Janet on January 31, 2006 at 1:18 pm

     I need your help in the Karpisnki diary. I’m trying to do something but my yahoo email is seen as spam. Towards end of the diary. Thanks!

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       BrendaStewart on January 31, 2006 at 2:25 pm

       go over to Arcturus diary in the side bar of diaries.  It can be found there.

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         Damnit Janet on January 31, 2006 at 2:40 pm

         It’s okay. I got the email through. It may have been a site hiccup on Clark’s side.

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   alohaleezy on January 31, 2006 at 1:36 pm

   to honor Coretta King and all that have fallen victim to this corrupt, illegal war for profit.

   Peace be with you!

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   BrendaStewart on January 31, 2006 at 2:28 pm

   I light this today for all that is evil, and wrong and sad in this old world today.

   

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   DuctapeFatwa on January 31, 2006 at 2:42 pm

   Officials in northern Iraq said on Tuesday they were treating 12 patients suspected of having bird flu as a World Health Organization (WHO) team prepared to travel to the area to give urgent assistance.

   Iraq`s health minister said on Monday the country feared it had its first human bird flu victim after preliminary test results showed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who died two weeks ago had the H5N1 virus…

   The British laboratory will also assess samples from the girl`s uncle, who had cared for her when she was ill and who himself died last week of a respiratory infection.

   “We have 12 patients in Sulaimaniya that have lung infections that we suspect may be the bird flu virus,” Kurdistan`s deputy prime minister, Imad Ahmed, told Reuters, referring to one of the region`s largest cities.

   The most serious was 54-year-old Mariam Qader, who came from the same village as the dead girl and is believed to be a distant relative of the victim.

   The village is close to Iraq`s border with Turkey, where four children died from bird flu in recent weeks…

   nerdified link

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   shermanesqe on January 31, 2006 at 6:34 pm

   

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    jimstaro on January 31, 2006 at 7:34 pm

    
    Light A Candle For
    Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
    and For The Children – Innocence Lost!

    

    
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    British Death to Be Marked by Protests
    Military Families Against the War says that the death of the 100th British soldier in Iraq today will be marked by a vigil in Parliament Square at which the names of the 100 soldiers and of 100 Iraqi dead will be read out. The organisation says it is also planning another 100 protests in 100 towns across the country.

    TODAY – Tuesday 31 January 2006
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    The 100th British soldier was killed in Iraq.    

    5 PM TODAY – Parliament Square – to name the dead (British and Iraqi)

    WEDNESDAY evening – every town and city in the UK – protests and vigils

    100 – a sadly significant statistic for this country, to be added to the in excess  of 100,000 other victims of Tony Blair’s ‘blood price’ – Iraqis, Americans, British and others. We must stop this madness now before these Bush / Blair wars spread any further. Londoners come to Parliament Square this evening to ‘name the dead’ and tomorrow attend demonstrations and vigils across the country.

    Message from Rose Gentle (mother of Fusilier Gordon Gentle, killed in Basra on 28 June 2004): “Soldiers in Iraq have told me they don’t want to be there. They want to come home. They have told us to step up our campaign of resistance to this government’s war policies. We must act now, bring the troops home and end this illegal occupation.”

    Message from Reg Keys (father of Lance-Corporal Thomas Keys, killed in al-Majar on y 24 June 2003): “Would you please convey my deepest sorrow and sympathies to the families of the recent tragic and unnecessary deaths in Iraq. As a person who has experienced this loss I can honestly say “I know how you feel”. Surely now is the time to focus on a constructive exit strategy and bring home the troops from Iraq. To remain in Iraq will merely result in a steady trickle of coffins returning to these shores. We have to remember that troop deployment was based on the deceit of WMD not on regime change, and to keep our loyal troops there is to support regime change which is clearly against international law. These service personnel have had their Oath of Allegiance betrayed and their patriotism exploited by a Prime Minister that lacked the integirity and moral fibre to resist the pressure of war from President George W Bush. Had the invasion been backed by international law and the UN and had Iraq possessed WMD which could have threatened Britain then I am sure the families of these servicemen killed would more readily accept and come to terms with their deaths. One has to remember the Prime Minister’s speech to the House of Commons in February 2003 when he said: ‘Saddam could stay in power if he handed over his WMD.’ Occupation will continue to be the problem not the solution and will only encourage further attacks on British forces. Surely it is now time to apply the soothing balm of reason, steadily withdaw from Iraq and let Iraq heal itself.

    Soldiers names…

    Iraqi names…

    Here’s what can be done ……..

    …. On Saturday 21 January 2006 Nottingham STWC draped Nottingham’s Armed Forces Recruitment Centre with coffin-shaped placards naming members of the British Forces killed in Iraq … read report and see photos

    Demonstrate on 18 March

    As Posted On The VFP Group Board
    {AMEN Fellow Veteran Brother Stephen, AMEN}

    Letter to the Editor

    The following Letter to the Editor was
    Printed in the Courier-News, Central New Jersey, 11 Jan 2006

    Printed in the Home-News-Tribune, Central New Jersey, 16 Jan 2006

    Printed in the Trenton Times, 16 January 2006

    Printed in the Herald News, North Jersey, 14 Jan 2006

    Thought you’d like to see up to what I have been lately.

    Stephen J Spiro

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    There have been a number of letters recently, here and in other newspapers, from people who assert that we are at war, the enemy is relentless, and we must use every means in our power to protect ourselves.  In particular, they say, it is worthwhile to allow “illegal” wiretaps and other abridgements of our so-called civil liberties in order to protect ourselves.  These same people are enthusiastic supporters of sending off our young men and women to kill and to die in order to protect us against “enemies of freedom”.  Why is it all right for these brave young people to sacrifice their lives, their health, their youth for our freedoms, while others want to give up those very freedoms to save their own lives?  These people are cowards and traitors, and deserve the utter contempt of their neighbors and of every decent American.  

    Stephen J Spiro

    Edison

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      jimstaro on January 31, 2006 at 8:58 pm

      Georgia Stillwell | Veteran’s Mother’s State of Our Family Address
      George Bush is going to give us his state of the union, well this is the state of my family. People say to me he volunteered, he knew what he was getting into. My son was still a teenager, he had no idea what he was getting into. Can anyone really comprehend war unless they’ve been there? The war has come home … it is coming home with each soldier. My son’s body survived Iraq … nothing else.

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      Damnit Janet on January 31, 2006 at 9:09 pm

      That letter to the editor says it all. They expect our loved ones to DIE for “fighting for freedom” and yet they rally to have those very freedoms trashed.

      They are traitors.