The Curmudgeon

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Tragedies, Statistics, Prices Worth Paying

It is six years since the invasion of Iraq, which makes the Iraq war approximately the same age as the late Ivan Cameron. Gordon Brown responded to Ivan Cameron's death with a tribute to three servicemen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and went on to note that "every child is precious and irreplaceable, and the death of a child is an unbearable sorrow that no parent should ever have to endure". He also said that "politics can sometimes divide us. But there's a common human bond that unites us in sympathy and compassion at times of trial and in support for each other at times of grief." Either someone else has been bankrolling our contribution to the Iraq war all this time, or some children are less precious and more replaceable than others.

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