Comments on: Schedule of Public Events with the Najaf Delegation to Minneapolis http://reconciliationproject.org/schedule-of-public-events-with-the-najaf-delegation-to-minneapolis/ IARP Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:02:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Luke Wilcox http://reconciliationproject.org/schedule-of-public-events-with-the-najaf-delegation-to-minneapolis/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Luke Wilcox Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:30:21 +0000 http://reconciliationproject.org/?p=552#comment-157 Molly, Thanks so much for your message in support of the delegation. I think you hit the delegates' message right on the head. They're here to help Iraq move toward a better future and build peace between our two cities and countries. Thank you again. Luke Wilcox IARP Molly,

Thanks so much for your message in support of the delegation. I think you hit the delegates’ message right on the head. They’re here to help Iraq move toward a better future and build peace between our two cities and countries.

Thank you again.
Luke Wilcox
IARP

]]> By: Molly Johanna Culligan http://reconciliationproject.org/schedule-of-public-events-with-the-najaf-delegation-to-minneapolis/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Molly Johanna Culligan Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:45:30 +0000 http://reconciliationproject.org/?p=552#comment-125 You bring relief to the anxiety we Americans over about this endless endless war. You bring organization of tactile possibilities to envision helping the people of the cradle of civilization. To have stood by helplessly to watch our military's visiting of human suffering on Iraq, the country we set out to help by rescuing it from the Sadam Hussein regime, yet have managed to replace that regime with devastation, is a cruel conundrum. The Iraq delegation first and foremost enforces over and over the Iraqi gratitude to The United States for freeing them from Hussein's reign of terror. They choose not to remonstrate about the long years of fallout in our accomplishing that: the loss of life; contamination often from our depleted uranium cluster bomb and its resultant rise in breast and stomach cancer rates; hunger; lack of labor rights; abuses of their families; our failure to educate our troops in the Iraq language, which has resulted in massive misunderstanding of Iraq customs; even in our troops having difficulty finding their way around neighborhoods. No, they say they only look forward to a strong stable Iraq government. And they feel this will best be accomplished by the schools we are building for their children. They are jubilant at them. I pray we are helping the people themselves to staff their school with progressive teachers. because so their hope for their future lies in the promise of their children's leadership. Yes, and this is where the United States' future lies also; in returning our out of control culture of stimulation to normalcy. Normalcy. How may we have normalcy when we've lived under the auspices of non stop war? By giving our school children tools to live through the humanities. This is my hope and the hope of the Iraqi thinkers visiting us. Thank you, Molly Culligan, associate member, Veterans for Peace You bring relief to the anxiety we Americans over about this endless endless war. You bring organization of tactile possibilities to envision helping the people of the cradle of civilization. To have stood by helplessly to watch our military’s visiting of human suffering on Iraq, the country we set out to help by rescuing it from the Sadam Hussein regime, yet have managed to replace that regime with devastation, is a cruel conundrum. The Iraq delegation first and foremost enforces over and over the Iraqi gratitude to The United States for freeing them from Hussein’s reign of terror.

They choose not to remonstrate about the long years of fallout in our accomplishing that: the loss of life; contamination often from our depleted uranium cluster bomb and its resultant rise in breast and stomach cancer rates; hunger; lack of labor rights; abuses of their families; our failure to educate our troops in the Iraq language, which has resulted in massive misunderstanding of Iraq customs; even in our troops having difficulty finding their way around neighborhoods.

No, they say they only look forward to a strong stable Iraq government. And they feel this will best be accomplished by the schools we are building for their children. They are jubilant at them. I pray we are helping the people themselves to staff their school with progressive teachers. because so their hope for their future lies in the promise of their children’s leadership.

Yes, and this is where the United States’ future lies also; in returning our out of control culture of stimulation to normalcy. Normalcy. How may we have normalcy when we’ve lived under the auspices of non stop war?

By giving our school children tools to live through the humanities. This is my hope and the hope of the Iraqi thinkers visiting us.

Thank you,

Molly Culligan, associate member, Veterans for Peace

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