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dollmaker
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0 posted 2007-03-31 01:44 PM


BRING OUR MEN AND WOMEN HOME FROM FROM IRAQ,

MORE AND MORE OF OUR TROOPS ARE DYING OVER THERE

EVERYDAY AND FOR WHAT? OIL, REVANGE FOR YOUR DAD,

WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION, TERRORISM?

I FIND IT RATHER INTERESTING THAT WE DID NOT SEEM

TO FIND ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION YET AND

REVANGE FOR YOUR DAD IS NO GOOD REASON TO GO TO WAR

IN MIND AND TERRORISTS SEEM TO COME FROM

EVERYWHERE.

MOST OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE DO NOT SEEM TO WANT US

THERE AT ALL.

MY DAD HAD TO GO TO VIETNAM AS A YOUNG MAN, HE HAD

TO SEE THINGS NO YOUNG SHOULD SEE AND DO THINGS NO

YOUNG MAN SHOULD HAVE TO DO. HE FLEW PLANES IN NAM

KNOW ANY DAY COULD BE HIS LAST. I AM HIS 33 YEAR

OLD DISABLED DAUGHTER AND I AM PROUD OR MY DAD FOR

NOT BOMBING NAM LIKE THEY ASKED HIM TO.

I THINK THERE ARE THINGS ON HOMEFRONT THAT YOU

COULD FOCUS ON: HEALTHCARE, HOMELESSNESS, THE POOR,

MORE HOUSING FOR THE DISABLED AND OLDER PEOPLE,

JOBS, GLOBAL WARMING, THE BUDGET AND MUCH MORE.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP SOMEWHERE ABOARD HELP DARFUR

IT VERY BAD AND THERE IS ALOT OF SENSELESS KILLING

OVER THERE AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR THEM.

BUT PLEASE BRING THE TROOPS HOME OKAY.

WE ARE NOT WINNING THE WAR LIKE YOU THINK WE ARE,

THE VIOLENCE GETS WORSE EVERYDAY.

SIGNED, KERRI LYNN MICELI

© Copyright 2007 kerri miceli - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
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1 posted 2007-03-31 02:22 PM


(((((((Kerry))))))

Your heart speaks here and it speaks clearly. In war there are no winners.

May voices like yours be heard, may leaders all over the world come to understand that there has to be an end to the senseless killing of each other.

Humanity is One, we should have no enemies, we should learn to love and to care for each other. Yes Darfur!

Dear Kerry, I reach out across the world and hold hands with you.

I appreciate your work.

Love and hugs.
Margherita


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