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The Horrors Of War

Article 3 ~ May 2003

On this one thing, most people are agreed - we are against war. Even those of us who have no personal experience of it know of its horrors and terrors. That was pointedly illustrated when the anti-war demonstrators had a very large representation of school children. While we remember and honour those who went to war - our freedom was their sacrifice - we see war as a last resort and only in exceptional circumstances like when there is a Hitler and Saddam Hussein who threaten the world. The anti-war demonstrations were to be expected - the effects of war on innocent people in Iraq are shocking to the eye and an assault on the senses of people who have pity for the sufferers, and some of them will be forces personnel, sons and daughters, husbands and fathers of our own people. The saturation media coverage of the war means that everything to do with it has been or is being said. Suffice here to add a comment apropo the occasional reference to Northern Ireland and the different British, American and Irish government attitudes to violence and terrorism here. There is the question - is it not strange that there were no demonstrations when Northern Ireland was under attack from an IRA that murdered, maimed, injured and bereaved many of our citizens? The response in counter-attack meant that other innocent people were made to suffer terribly and permanently. The situations, there and here, are not comparable except that the results in death and destruction are remarkably similar. We, experienced as we are, pray anxiously and in anticipation that the war in Iraq qill give that country the freedom from fear, want, despair and the peace and prosperity it needs so much. There is also agreement on this - we all want these basic human rights.

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