In an article in this morning's SMH, posted from Washington, entitled "Stop this terrible waste, grieving mothers tell Bush" Phillip Coorey relates the true impact of the Iraq War on Americans affected by the War.
As Coorey reports:
"As the Prime Minister, John Howard, spends the week in Washington reaffirming Australia's support for the war, Ms Lipman's story, and that of the other 2400 mothers who have lost their sons in Iraq, is beginning to loom large in the US."
Read the full, sad and moving piece, here. It's the "real" side of the War as it affects Americans. Remember that the trauma is mirrored in Iraq too.
Whilst PM Howard basks in the "show" which has undoubtably been turned on for him in Washington, he and his wife - parents of grown-up children who haven't been sent to Iraq to serve nor volunteered to do so - on the realities of what Howard, Bush and Blair have wrought with their misguided and misconceived entry into the Iraq War. It's a tragedy which will resonate in many ways for years.
As Coorey reports:
"As the Prime Minister, John Howard, spends the week in Washington reaffirming Australia's support for the war, Ms Lipman's story, and that of the other 2400 mothers who have lost their sons in Iraq, is beginning to loom large in the US."
Read the full, sad and moving piece, here. It's the "real" side of the War as it affects Americans. Remember that the trauma is mirrored in Iraq too.
Whilst PM Howard basks in the "show" which has undoubtably been turned on for him in Washington, he and his wife - parents of grown-up children who haven't been sent to Iraq to serve nor volunteered to do so - on the realities of what Howard, Bush and Blair have wrought with their misguided and misconceived entry into the Iraq War. It's a tragedy which will resonate in many ways for years.
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