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[sophiaserpentia]

The Pentagon has backtracked a second time on whether or not white phosphorus killed civilians in Fallujah. First they admitted that it had been used; now they're admitting that civilians may have been killed by it.

Maybe it's not strictly illegal for the army to use WP in "shake and bake" operations, but it's damned evil. You can't guarantee that spraying a chemical all over the place isn't going to hurt innocent bystanders. And do you, as taxpayers, really want the money you earned to be used to support military deployment of a chemical that eats away flesh?

And then there's the assertion by the President that the US "does not use torture." Even at the same time this two-faced administration says also that it is against a law prohibiting torture that "doesn't" happen. And i guess they don't call it "torture" when someone has a concussion from being beaten, has his wrists bound behind his back and is then hung by his wrists, is beaten some more, and then has an empty sandbag placed over his head while he asphyxiates.

And as Molly Ivins wrote in a recent piece, "If you are dead to all sense of morality... let us still reason together on the famous American common ground of practicality. Torture. Does. Not. Work."

I don't know how to sit here peacefully while these atrocities are carried out in my name.

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[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Perhaps because the alternative to behaving peacefully, even in the face of these horrors, is becoming violent and adding to them?

[amazonatheart.livejournal.com]

I know we don't really know each other, but I've seen your posts in different journals...I hope that you're doing better, brontoproximo said you were in the hospital...