nightmare
This is devastating:
I highly suggest reading it top to bottom.
I heard a soldier say that he had talked to his priest about killing Iraqis, and that his priest had told him it was all right to kill for his government as long as he did not enjoy it. After he had killed at least four men, I heard the soldier say that he had begun to have doubts: “Where the fuck did Jesus say it’s OK to kill people for your government?”
Joan said,
February 1, 2005 @ 8:37 pm
I heard Donald Rumsfeld say: ‘Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.’
That man is one of a kind.
BTW, the verse where Jesus says it’s OK to kill for your government is right after the one that says, “Blessed are the war-makers, for they shall be the ones to decide who can be called the children of God.”
GreenInk said,
February 2, 2005 @ 11:50 am
Worth a few blood-pressure points…
Eliot Weinberger, London Review of Books, feeds it all back to us, straight from the mouths of our leaders, in “What I heard about Iraq.”
A short excerpt:
I heard the vice
Sean said,
February 21, 2005 @ 11:57 pm
Funny, that’s the same thing they used to say about sex. It’s all right as long as you don’t enjoy it.