Let me not repeat but add to what I have said on Iraq. I am compelled to speak on behalf of children and young people, and in my mind these are two groups whose portraits haunt me. More than half of the Iraqi population is under 18 years of age and many of the soldiers on both sides are but a few years older. Oh, God in heaven, we have set the young against the younger. For what? For oil? For glory? The children of Iraq will drink polluted water; many will starve. As the father of a four-year old and expecting a new-born in June, I have no trouble visualizing the under-five population in Iraq. I was horrified the other day when I read an NGO (Nongovernmental Organization) email description of an Iraqi father holding up parts of his baby following a bombing. And the young people of the invading forces. How I care for them. So essentially good: attempting to be humane even with weapons drawn.
Sir, I was shocked when I read about the brutal beating being given to a person simply because he did not like Saddam Husein, or better yet being killed and leaving his family orphans. You seem to think we did this for oil. Good, then you do not have to use that oil to drive your car or heat your house. In fact, sir, please go live in these places that would not let you practice your religion, that would shoot you for saying the name of Jesus. You think it was only about oil, no, it was for bringing freedom to a place that longed for it, the very freedoms you deserve. Sure, many died, and many died to bring you that freedom that you enjoy in this country. Do you decry those deaths, and say they were senseless? Or is it just because it is now?
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