TO OUR SOLDIERS, I SAY, THANK YOU – AMEN!
With all my heart and all my soul, I am so happy for the Soldiers that have departed from the midst of a country that we went into eight years ago. We could never thank them enough, we could never pay them enough, and no amount of gifts or medals could placate their deaths, injuries and their mental state of mind that would be a life time of anguish.
In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons. There was never a good war or a bad war; for wars that rage within the world are a reflection of the wars that rage inside people. “As never before, the essence of war is a fire, famine and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; and they become its consequences.”
“Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.” Martin Luther (1483-1546)
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man! So, let us hope that despite the misadventure of former President George W. Bush to cast us into Iraq for which we cannot undo, let us hope and pray that the opportunity the we afforded the Iraqi people, in our dearest treasure; “blood, tears, wounds and monetary,” that they would find it within themselves to become a nation, “where religion takes a back seat and the good of all people are at the forefront!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/world/middleeast/19withdrawal.html?_r=1
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