More Killing Doesn't Honor Son Lost to War

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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1106-25.htm
Published on Monday, November 6, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington)

More Killing Doesn't Honor Son Lost to War

by Joe Colgan


Nov. 1 was the third anniversary of our son Ben's death in Iraq. The sense of grief grows with each passing year because, as the war continues, the reluctance of our nation to honestly confront the moral issues it raises inhibits the healing process of our family. Our loss of Ben is intensified by the additional sadness we feel when so many around us remain silent in the face of the senseless destruction dealt to so many American and Iraqi families.

Lt. Benjamin J. Colgan, U.S. Army, was one of the early ones to die in Baghdad as the result of head injuries received from a roadside bomb. He was one of 82 killed during a month that produced the highest monthly total for 2003. Now, the month of October left us with more than 103 more Americans killed, the highest monthly total in 21 months.

How many more American and Iraqi families must bear anniversaries like ours? Well into the fourth year of this tragic misadventure, where is the outrage?

Even to call this war a "misadventure" avoids confronting the reality of our aggression. A war of aggression, as the Nuremberg Tribunal concluded after World War II, "is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

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1. It's past time for all Americans to come to grips with the reality of what a war of aggression

really is, the supreme international crime, and for each person to understand his/her own personal complicity by supporting/not opposing a war of aggression and/or by supporting/voting for those responsible. :hurts: