Dozens Killed In Iraq

In the last two days, dozens of men, women and children have been killed in bomb explosions and hundreds more have been severely injured. The focus of the attacks is in Baghdad, but the killing continues elsewhere as well.

When these bombs suddenly explode, buildings are rocked and some collapse as shards of glass and building materials are rocketed like shrapnel. The flames emit a stench and their smoke can be seen across a great distance, terrifying other people who fear for the next explosion.

With no warning, people who had lives only a heartbeat earlier are now dead or wounded and their families are about to receive devastating news.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant but since the U.S. invasion that deposed him more than 10 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and others have lost their lives, and many more people bear the permanent scars of war, including all the children who have been orphaned, and/or the children who live with missing limbs.

Is there a solution to all this violence that continues even as you read this message Dear Reader? There is if only the warring parties would heed it. It is to call a cease fire and to sit down together and in all sincerity, discuss the issues and peacefully resolve them together.

The solution seems so obvious but instead men's egos cry out for revenge and for power, and an eye for an eye prevails in which humanity, including children, are sacrificed.

Let us hope that wiser heads will prevail and for peace and stability in Iraq and for a prosperous society that only peace can bring. In the meantime, my heart cries out for our Iraqi brethren.

Dick
To learn more about the last two days of violence: http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/16/sectarian-violence-on-the-rise-again-in-iraq-scores-killed-in-two-days/