A thoughtful story about Bishop George E. Packard, a Vietnam vet wrestling with the fact that he killed people over there. In the accompanying photo he looks strikingly like former-president Bill Clinton. It'd be interesting to here his thoughts on the likely imminent war with (or "against" more precisely) Iraq. He says he lost count of the men and women he killed. And, at 58, those events haven't stopped affecting his life. How many men will come home from Iraq pregnant with guilt? Of course, this war may well be much more clinical. Pilots dropping bombs on Baghdad won't see the innocent lives they destroy. And, in the future, as a recent Village Voice article describes, soldiers may just pops pills to help the overcome their fear and guilt. I hope we don't go down that road. How grotesquely immoral.

I wonder how many in the military feel conflicted about this unprovoked, neo-imperialistic war?

Loads more protesting going on today around the world. One poster I saw in a CNN photo read:

Why do we Kill
people who Kill
people to show
people that Killing
people is wrong?

Amen. No protesting going on downtown in the big banking city, though. Wouldn't be proper.