"I'm at the al Fanar Hotel right now. Baghdad is still being bombed. We were bombed as recently as fifteen minutes ago. It rattled all the windows and shook the walls. It was a series of explosions, but that seems to have passed. I don't know where the bomb hit, but it was not too far from here, apparently."

Kathy Kelly:
General Tommy Franks described the bombing as a mosaic and we can >understand that. We simply don't know the time of day when bombs are >suddenly going to burst overhead. It continues to be horrifying when you think about what's happening to families, particularly now as members of the Iraq Peace Team have started to go to the hospitals and to the sites where family people have been harmed. We were utterly appalled when we heard that the Bush Administration is saying the war is a success because there have only been hundreds of casualties in spite of ... thousands of cruise missiles and bombs.

"But we now know of some of these so-called success stories and it can make you wonder what kind of perversity can be possessing the oval office and the defense planners. Some of our team members today, with Dr. April Hurley, encountered a family that was just rushing into a hospital after a bomb hit the picnic lunch they were having in front of their home. At least one child was killed, two others are in uncertain condition.
"And at both of the hospitals we visited today, doctors are working around the clock really trying their best to heal people and - if they have minimal injuries - send them on their way so that they can make beds available for the many, many more casualties they expect to come. Particularly as there are reports of more massive bombings and a possible siege of Baghdad.

"Meanwhile of course, we are very, very concerned for people of Basra on their third day without electricity and water [ed. note: we are hearing water service has been partially restored in Basra]. They cant survive without water.

"The air raid sirens are wailing. This has been a frequent daily and nightly event. We are all sleep-deprived. I continue to marvel at how well people handle themselves - from the youngest of children to the most seasoned
of peace activists to the people who are new to war zones. And of course these many, many families that are no strangers to war."

Lisa Ndjeru:

"We get many phone calls from the media wanting to know casualty numbers and information about places hit. There's a lot of talk about precision. Are the Americans hitting precise targets? Are they keeping casualties to a minimum? It makes me very angry. Even if it were precision bombing, precision being that not a single civilian or home were hit, it still doesn't make this war legitimate.

"I don't know how were going to hold the American administration accountable. But it isn't that precise. We've gone to a hospital to see the civilian casualties. We've gone to visit bomb sites. There are civilian homes that are being hit. It makes me angry. I wonder how many people,
little girls, little boys, mothers, fathers, grandparents do we need to see either dead or maimed in order to say this is wrong.

"I watched TV yesterday and I saw some American casualties, some prisoners of war and some dead, and it breaks my heart to see those young soldiers stripped of their gear and their teams and their armaments and their weapons and their certainties, alone in the enemy camp. It shouldn't
come to that."

Scott Kerr:

"The city has been engulfed in a thick black smoke caused by large ditches of oil fires. These smoke clouds are supposed to make it more difficult for missiles to hit their mark. There were also winds from the south today which brings a heavy dust covering. It seems like twilight everyday.

"We have all heard about 'shock and awe' but I can tell you that on the ground it feels a lot more like 'misery and terror'. For the last week people have not been working, there has been a very limited access to food, and other basic necessities. I would say that about 95 percent of the city is shut down."

Stewart Vriesinga:

"Most of the Iraqis we meet seem to remain calm in the face of bombing. They ask us, 'Why?' They ask us after each bomb, 'How many people do you think died in that one?' The question is rhetorical. We know that. We do not respond because there is really nothing to say.

"While the Iraqis continue to be friendly, many see the invasion as hostile, and there are many civilians with guns. Perhaps not state of the art guns, and perhaps not with any uniforms, but it seems clear that there are many people here who - in addition to the armed forces - are prepared to defend themselves from any invasion forces." Thorne Anderson:

Note: Thorne Anderson and Jerry Zawada left Baghdad for Amman, Jordan yesterday. Having heard reports about everything from bombing to looting on the road connecting the two capitals. We were relieved to receive this update from Amman this afternoon:

"The trip from Baghdad was lonely and creepy. We saw burning oil pits, bombed and burned out cars on the side of the road, a couple of downed bridges, a destroyed roadside tea stand (the place we always stop on the trip to Baghdad from Amman), a destroyed ambulance abandoned down the embankment, a few routes hastily blocked with piles of rocks, etc.

"The Iraqi border crossing was surprisingly painless - Jerry and I had separate 'conversations' ('This is not an interview or an interrogation,' the man told me) with a Jordanian official on the border. UNHCR (United >Nations High Commission on Refugees) observers at the border told us that they had seen ZERO Iraqi refugees crossing into Jordan and were worried about that. Many young Iraqi men were being expelled from Jordan back into Iraq. They walk across the border into the empty dark desert with small bags slung over their shoulders."To read more Click Today we also received the first in a series of reports and photographs from Baghdad's emergency rooms. The first of those reports, written by physician April Hurley, can be seen at: ClickSome of the pictures are quite graphic. Our decision to share the images is an urgent attempt to show the real face of war at a time when so much of what we see is antiseptic and distant.

Thanks to all of you who have called or emailed us with words of support. It means a lot to all of us - from Chicago to Baghdad - to know people are listening...and acting!

Sincerely,

Jeff Guntzel, for Voices in the Wilderness

NO! I do not accept the accidental or purposeful killing of children as having anything to do with American security or freedom!

NO! I do not accept that American young people in uniform have to follow orders and murder a family! Children for God's sake!

NO! I do not accept war as a reasonable option to bringing peace…anywhere, anytime! Violence only creates more violence. Violence against those mangled babies in their mother's arms! Violence against those young soldiers who murder and are murdered!

This war is not for American freedom! It is not for Iraqi freedom! It will not make this world a safer place for our children! This multi-billion dollar terrorist attack on the earth and its inhabitants will return to haunt us.

Anger? Grief? Anguish? Absolutely! The children in that mother's arms, the young soldiers who murdered them, are my children, my grandchildren! We are all members of this human family and we have to quit killing one another! Our killing capabilities are way beyond reason.

It is time to learn and to utilize non-violent means and humanitarian goodness to resolve conflicts and relieve poverty and suffering here at home and abroad. Peace is possible if we open our hearts and minds to love and truth…if we open our arms and hold those two babies as if they were our own.

Sincerely,
Glenda Breeden

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Yesterday Mt. Everest was the highest mountain on earth.
Tomorrow a monument of radioactive debris will stand tall.
Yesterday the MX II was introduced.
Tomorrow it will be the torch of this monument.
Yesterday electricity was generated in dome shaped reactors.
Tomorrow they will be the pedestal.
Yesterday the nuclear satellite was in space.
Tomorrow it shall crown the monument.
Yesterday people looked at the statue of Liberty in awe.
Tomorrow the bombs will explode and then there will be
Peace forever on earth.
Today! We the people need to unite for our children's sake to survive
this madness.

June30, 1983

He said it once.
It's a crusade.
Then his handlers made him stop,
Thinking the word might alarm
Muslims and others attuned
To religious conflict
And warring.

I thought it was an oil war
He wanted.
To support his business friends
And satisfy our appetite.

But now I see:
He charges "Evil"
As a Christian judgement,
Adding religious purpose
To his quest.

None of this is missed by those we will attack.
They have generations
Of experience in
Religious warring.

We are over our heads
And wrong besides.
I say "we" because
He won't do the fighting.

Read the attached information and, if you're as pissed off with this whole pattern of subterfuge as I am, call or write the White house at the numbers provided after the article. And pass this on to anyone else who thinks these sons of bitches have to be stopped.

Greg Kagan
Minneapolis

President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W. David Hager to head up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ReproductiveHealth & Drug Advisory Committee. The committee has not met for more than Two years, during which time its charter has lapsed. As a result, the Bush Administration is tasked with filling all eleven positions with new members. This position does not require Congressional approval. TheFDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee makes crucial decisions on matters relating to drugs used in the practice ofobstetrics & gynecology & and related specialties, including hormonetherapy, contraception, & treatment for infertility, and medical alternatives to surgical procedures for sterilization and pregnancy termination. Dr. Hager's views of reproductive health care are far outside the mainstream of setback for reproductive technology.

Dr.Hager is a practicing OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women.

Hager is the author of "As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now." The book blends biblical accounts of Christ healing women
With case studies from Hager's practice. In the book Dr.Hager wrote with his wife, entitled "Stress and the Woman's Body," he suggests that women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome should seek help from reading the bible and praying. As an editor and contributing author of "The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies and the Family," Dr. Hager appears to have endorsed the medically inaccurate assertion that the common birth control pill is an abortifacient. Hagar's mission is religiously motivated. He has an ardent interest In revoking and approval for mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486) as a safe and early form of medical abortion. Hagar recently assisted the Christian Medical Association in a "citizen's petition" which calls upon the FDA to revoke its approval of mifepristone in the name of women's health.

Hager's desire to overturn mifepristone's approval on religious
grounds rather than scientific merit would halt the development of
mifepristone as a treatment for numerous medical conditions disproportionately affecting women, including breast cancer, uterine cancer, uterine fibroid tumors, psychotic depression, bipolar depression and Cushing's syndrome.

Women rely on the FDA to ensure their access to safe and effective drugs for reproductive health care including products that prevent pregnancy. For some women, such as those with certain types of diabetes and those undergoing treatment for cancer, pregnancy can be a life-threatening condition. We are concerned that Dr. Hager's strong religious beliefs may color his assessment of technologies that are necessary to protect women's lives or to preserve and promote women's health. Hager's track record of using religious beliefs to guide his medicaldecision-making makes him a dangerous and inappropriate candidate to serve as chair of this committee.

Critical drug public policy and research must not be held hostage by antiabortion politics. Members of this important panel should be appointed on the basis of science and medicine, rather than politics and religion. American women deserve no less.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?
1. SEND THIS TO EVERY PERSON WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT WOMEN'S
HEALTHCARE.
2. OPPOSE THE PLACEMENT OF DR. HAGER BY CONTACTING THE WHITE
HOUSE AND
TELL THEM HE IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE & INAPPROPRIATE CHOICE.

Please email President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov or call the White House at (202)456-1111 or (202) 456-1414 and say "I oppose the appointment of Dr.
Hager to the FDA Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. Mixing religion and medicine is unacceptable.

MALE; SIX FEET; MIDDLE-AGED; BLACK HAIR; BROWN BOOTS
He fit the description perfectly; BLUE CAR; TINTED WINDOWS;
SPORTS
COUPE

Take him on down.
Take him on down.

MAN; 6"1; 39-42; DARK HAIR; TAN SHOES He fit the description
perfectly; BROWN COMPLEXION, too.

Take him on down.
Take him on down.

Guy on the corner of 35TH; MEDIUM BUILD; BLUE SUBURBAN;
BUSINESS SUIT

Didn't fit the description perfectly, but he was wearing a turban
like you-know-who.

Take him on down.
Take him on down.

Questionable character at the telephone booth; hopped out
of a car

kind on like the sports coupe; keep in mind: these
suspects, they
usually work in groups.

Take him on down.
Take him on down.

BLACK JACKET WITH A BACKPACK; could have been a student;
but could be

carrying explosives, too; No time for taking chances" release him
and them when we dig up some more clues . . .

More clues? More clues?

Is it racial profiling, or another night watching the news?

It was funny when he worked for Seven-Eleven.
But when the seven became a nine . . . Middle Eastern
became a crime.

Pakistani, Indian, Arab" let them all do time!
BROWN SKIN, DARK HAIR . . . nobody cares!

Better safe than sorry. Better safe than sorry.

Sorry SORRY SORRY, IT AIN'T MY PROBLEM.

That is . . .
until they create a Patriot Act targeting Blacks -
or Southwest says "you gotta be "Americanâ"- wealthy,
conservative, and white" " to get a next day flight "
or brown skinned Latinos get mistaken for brown skinned terrorists . .
..

when they associate the KKK with Christian, just as they equate
Taliban with Islam,
and we can only salute the flag from the inside of prison cells"

maybe then, maybe then.

You'll be safe, but you'll be sorry.

Maybe you'll change your mind when they mistake you for "him".
When they see your skin and say:

TAKE HIM ON IN.
TAKE HIM ON IN.