Reporter: Mr. Harrison, with all that’s going on in the world today, why did you decide to focus on this (Bangladesh)?”
George Harrison: “Because a friend asked me to help.”
from a press conference for the Concert for Bangladesh
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, My Left Wing, and TexasKos.
image and poem below the fold
An Iraqi woman reacts after her son was killed after a bombing attack at a bus garage in Baghdad May 16, 2006. Nineteen people were killed in a shooting and bombing attack at a bus garage in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen
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by Han Shan
translated by David Hinton
The cold in these mountains is ferocious,
has been every year since the beginning.
Crowded peaks locked in perennial snows,
recluse-dark forests breathing out mists,
grasses never sprout before the solstice
and leaves start falling in early August.
This confusion includes a lost guest now,
searching, searching–no sky to be seen.
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The candle that DianeL first lit many months ago, and which has become such an important part of these diaries since, is still available here.
You can copy that image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), craft your own image, and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment – as a sign that you know, but do not approve, and are not resigned.
“It is like trying to ignite – to pass on the responsibilities as much as possible to everyone else.”
Ravi Shankar
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For The Children – Innocence Lost!
Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun:
“You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. They’re plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That’s their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.”
This Video report: Iraqi-Girls-Story is an interview with apparently the only survivor of her families killings of which Murtha Reported on and the Military has had to back track about!!
If this little girl is putting Truth to the Facts Shown and now Reported, this is The Final Nail of a Lost Cause Debacle!!!
Bring Them Home, NOW!!
The few who committ Atrosities Endanger the Rest, and in todays World we will be feeling the Retaliations long into the future unless Sanity and We the People can Right the Wrongs!!
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Mothers Day
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Exhibit On War Heartbreaking
Fresh attacks kill 19 in Baghdad
The Independent UK posted an article by Patrick Cockburn redefining the Iraq situation for what it truly is, Bosnia in the 1990s.
Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale.
Bush was warned not to open the Iraq pandora’s box.
We do need an intercession for peace.
peace
since George declared “Mission Accomplished”.
Impeach the Chimp!