Worth the sacrifice.In the March Culture in Context ("Tactical terror") Patrick McCormick comments that 2,200 U.S. soldiers are dead and that Iraq is a more deadly place. He neglects the fact that there are no longer hundreds of thousands of Iraqis going into mass graves A mass grave is a grave containing multiple, usually unidentified human corpses. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave. . The slaughter slaughter 1. the killing of animals for the preparation of meat for human consumption. Many methods are used. See also emergency slaughter, captive bolt pistol, carbon dioxide anesthesia, jewish slaughter, muslim slaughter, pithing, puntilla, shechita, sikh slaughter. 2. of innocents by Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. has stopped. Are not these Muslim lives worth 2,200 American lives? Are Catholics more equal before God than Muslims? I think not. It took well over two years after Germany surrendered before violence even started to calm down in Germany--when the German people themselves got fed up with it. That time is coming in Iraq. Good people in time will always prevail over evil. Paul M. Berardi Scottsdale, Ariz. Can we please have some balance with the commentaries on these overtly o·vert adj. 1. Open and observable; not hidden, concealed, or secret: overt hostility; overt intelligence gathering. 2. political pieces like Culture in Context (March)? I don't share McCormick's views, and I'm sure there are just as many conservatives as there are liberals living in a state of grace. Mark R. McManus Gloucester Gloucester, city, England Gloucester (glŏs`tər, glô`stər), city (1991 pop. 106,526) and district, Gloucestershire, W central England, on the Severn River. , Mass. |
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