Peace Group Mourns Dead Hostage...

[bridgit]

'The body of American peace activist Tom Fox, has been found in Iraq. The following is a statement from Canadian-based Christian Peacemaker Teams, the anti-war group which supported his work in Iraq:

"In grief we tremble before God who wraps us with compassion. The death of our beloved colleague and friend pierces us with pain. Tom Fox's body was found in Baghdad yesterday."' http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0311-09.htm
:cry:

[Mika]

1. Negroponte's death squads. They were killing peace activists in Salvador

Remember, the NSA was/is spying on Quakers. Do ya think that Negroponte is giving them a warning?


From last year..

‘The Salvador Option’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek

NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras.

[bridgit]

2. and, for that matter, Negroponte has been lifted out of the 'green zone...

proper', and by his testimony before congress couple weeks back, is beginning to re-focus his jaundiced eye round about the world at large once again.

[classof56]

3. Tom Fox lived God's message. Micah 6:8:

"He has shown you, oh, man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."

If the hereafter I've always believed in is true, Tom is rejoicing in the presence of his God and receiving the rewards he so richly deserves. May God bless his family, friends and colleagues and give them the strength they need to continue his work and forgive all those involved in his death. Hard as it may be, I am sure they can forgive even Negroponte and all of Bush's evil minions. The Bible instructs us to weep with those that weep. I'm doing that now.

Tired Old Cynic

[bridgit]

5. indeed so...

O8)

[Fuzz]

4. Peace, bah. My Jesus has grenades n' stuff

That other Jesus is just so, like, old fashioned. Get with the program.