[Peace-discuss] For the Resolutions Working Group

[Karen Medina]

Perhaps Rep. Gohmert hasn't been keeping track of the number 
of the "tragic losses." Why are there still people who 
aren't noticing the effects of the war? Last night at the 
Working Group: Mission Presence, it was noted that several 
of the ministers had not been keeping up on what was going 
on. How can we encourage them too?

-karen medina

== snippets from the post from Carl ===
>The Chicago resolution, passed in September, took note of 
>the death toll, as well as the strain on U.S. military, 
>National Guard and Reserve units. It cites the war's cost --
> upward of $200 million -- and argues that Chicago's 
>portion could have paid for Head Start for 238,056 children 
>for one year or 31,147 public school teachers for a year. 
>It also charges that the treatment of prisoners has 
>inflamed anti-American passions and increased the terrorist 
>threat to U.S. citizens.

>Quotable
>"You'll have a parent or two here, as you know, whose tragic
>grief from the tragic loss of a loved one, of a child, 
>causes their mental thinking to be a little destabilized. 
>That's understandable."
>-- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) at a news conference 
>Thursday, discussing parents of slain soldiers who turned 
>antiwar.