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here is an interesting article. maybe our blood lusting leaders could adjust their thoughts after reading this: Don’t Invade Iran! by Ed Kinane / March 20th, 2008 Men keep going to war. They go for many reasons. The only defensible reason, however, is self-defense – of one’s family, one’s community, one’s country. With war many suffer and suffer profoundly. But few gain. Why then do men go to war so often? In one way or another most soldiers are coerced or brainwashed into battle. The few who gain keep the pot boiling. Only they have the power to do so. Even as they themselves avoid battle, those few force others to kill and risk death. Many are the reasons for not going to war. To begin with, just count the victims. Years ago a group of anti-war activists here in Syracuse brainstormed reasons to oppose the imminent US attack on Iraq. Not much tweaking would be needed for that long list to apply equally to a US invasion of Iran. That tweaking would be no academic exercise. Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush, having despoiled two Islamic nations, are poised to despoil a third. What follows draws on our brainstorm of years ago. As we did then, we begin here with why people of conscience must oppose war in general: continued: dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/dont-invade-iran/
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:06:02 +0000

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