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Letter from Karen Williams scroll to the right.
War is not a computer generated missile striking a digital map.War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of your child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single images portrayed on a television screen,but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war... We will have more humility in our discussions of wars perhaps it is time to listen to women's side of history.
-Zainab Salbi Author of Between the worlds:Escape from Tyranny:Growing up in the shadow of Saddam and The other side of war women's stories of suvival and hope.
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The real power, as you and I well know, is collective.
I can't affored to be afraid of you, nor you of me.
If it takes head-on collisions,let's do it:
This polite timidity is killing us.
Cherri'e Moraga check out the videos @ peacetakescourage.com
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom wilpf.org
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WAR is a racket.
It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest,
easily the most profitable,
surely the most vicious.
It is the only one
international in scope.
It is the only one in
which the profits are
reckoned in dollars
and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described,
I believe,
as something that
is not what it seems
to the majority of the people.
Only a small
"inside" group knows what it is about.
It is conducted for the
benefit of the very few,
at the expense of the very many.
Out of war a
few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I]
a mere handful
garnered the profits of the conflict.
At least 21,000 new millionaires and
billionaires were made
in the United States
during the World War.
That many admitted their
huge blood gains in their
income tax returns.
How many other war millionaires
falsified their
tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires
shouldered a rifle?
How many of them dug a trench?
How many of them knew what it meant to go
hungry in a rat-infested dug-out?
How many of them spent sleepless,
frightened nights, ducking shells and
shrapnel and machine gun bullets?
How many of them parried a bayonet
thrust of an enemy?
How many of them were wounded or
killed in battle?
Smedley Darlington Butler
Major General - United States Marine Corps [Retired]
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