Letter To The Editor
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An eight year old hit the nail on the head when he chose the words for his sign for our peace vigil: “War is Contagious” (I contributed only the spelling of contagious). Our immoral invasion of Iraq now produces in that country a harvest of at least 100 casualties a day, 3,149 dead bodies in June and 14,000 since January (according to Iraq’s morgues). Our military and economic beneficiary, Israel, with no discouraging words from the U.S. (after all, who are we to pose as peacemakers), is strafing 800,000 refugees in Lebanon with cluster bombs and destroying its airfields, bridges and other infrastructure. Are we becoming so immune to doing violence to others that we accept it as long as the missiles are not aimed (yet) at us? Hilda M. Wilcox Cooperstown
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