Web Letters: War Is Personal

Mike Harmon / Age 25 / Brooklyn, New York

By Eugene Richards

This article appeared in the September 22, 2008 edition of The Nation.

September 3, 2008

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  • These are the people--this young medic and all of the Iraq Veterans Against the War--who should have been front and center at the DNC convention, telling the truth about Bush's "noble war on terror." I believe in his heart Obama knows the evil that Bush-Cheney and the neocons have unleashed with this obscene war for profit and domination of the Middle East. He has to attack McCain with that truth--and keep attacking--or he will not win in November.

    John Giarratana

    Jersey City, NJ

    09/06/2008 @ 7:28pm


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