PLEASE read this excellent article... Cindy has even touched Kenya

[Bluerthanblue]

At Least Our Leaders Shun War
August 20, 2005
Posted to the web August 19, 2005

Ambrose Murunga
Nairobi

Kenyan leaders may routinely line up their pockets at our expense, or occasionally impose a suspect public educational system while their children benefit from first-rate education elsewhere.

But looking at events beyond our borders, I'm grateful that our leaders, in spite of their exceptional insatiability, have at least shunned external aggression.

I find that a remarkable achievement in a region where practically all our neighbours have been to wars.

No Kenyan parent would want to be in the position of a mother called Cindy Sheehan. For the past few weeks, Cindy has been publicly mourning her son, Casey........more

http://allafrica.com/stories/200508190917.html

[BattyDem]

1. EVERYONE must read this .... Nominated.

Thanks for finding this. :-)

[kikiek]

2. That is a great article. Thanks for posting it.

[riverwalker]

3. Excellent

and from the other side of the world.

[Psyop Samurai]

4. Whoot !!! ...

Kenya in Da House!!

[Talismom]

5. The fact checking leaves something to be desired...Casey was not an

only child...

But it is moving to see the attention Cindy's actions are getting and focusing on our "fearless leader".:sarcasm:

[Bluerthanblue]

7. i noticed

that too, but there was a Yahoo article that said Cindy had twin daughters, so, i couldn't 'fault' the article for that mistake.-
The rest seems pretty accurate, and sadly very poigniantly true.
For all the claims 'we' have to being so 'progressive' and 'civilized'- the facts seem to rat us out.

[Talismom]

8. Yeah, Iris Demet has this song called Living in the Wasteland of the Free

and in one of the verses she says,

"and we call ourselves the advanced civilization. That sounds like crap to me! Feel like I'm living in the wasteland of the free."

[pitohui]

6. jesus i can't picture it

was tokyo 5 times the size of present day nairobi in 1945, i can't picture burning such an area

this essay touches my heart & the more so since i fear that kenya & tanzania will have no choice one day but to go to war for their own water, in lake victoria, which egypt, a very rich nation, claims they have no right to

to talismon--i suspect fact-checking is difficult at such a distance, the internet lines & even regular phone lines can be surprisingly challenging at times in nairobi based on my tiny experience

[hwmnbn]

9. And yet.....

In Kenya, whatever else our leaders may be guilty of, at least they cannot be accused of being a bellicose, war-mongering bunch. That alone saves us the pain and heartache of Cindy Sheehan.

Does that make us cowards? Nay. I prefer the word "civilized."

a struggling nation in Africa, with all their problems is saying "Glad we're not them" How telling is that?!?.

Thanks for posting.