[Peace-discuss] Meg has a Letter to the editor News-Gazette 12/21

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

Johnson should direct efforts to Iraq

Thursday December 21, 2006

Ohio's congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich held a  
hearing last week on the devastating human costs of our war in Iraq.  
Our congressman, Tim Johnson, held a hearing last week on the rights of  
universities to run athletic programs without NCAA oversight.

Congressman Johnson expressed concern over the NCAA's violation of  
local autonomy that this nation and state stand for. If only our  
congressman was half as concerned about the autonomy of a country we  
invaded, unprovoked, and a people we continue to kill with our planes,  
artillery and unmanned drones.

If only our congressman had the temerity to investigate our devastation  
against a previously unarmed population, deprived for over a decade by  
our post-Gulf War sanctions, who had the misfortune to be living under  
the rule of Saddam, our former ally now fallen from our grace.

If only our congressman would join presidential candidate Kucinich in  
calling for an end to the off-the-books supplemental funding of our war  
on Iraq. The Defense Department has enough funds to bring every  
American now in Iraq home; if we keep funding the department, more of  
our precious neighbors will be sent into this debacle, the will of last  
month's electorate will be ignored and this senseless killing will  
continue.

That Tim Johnson cares more about supporting the autonomy of Chief  
Illiniwek supporters over the life and death issues facing our armed  
forces and innocent civilians in Iraq is a shameful betrayal of the  
office he holds.

  MEG MINER

Mansfield
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