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This is how they're reacting to this story over on the DU:

scarletwoman (3242 posts)
Apr-15-03, 07:06 PM (ET)
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13. I suppose people will think I'm crazy,
but this news has started me crying...
Who knows what kind of man he actually was -- maybe he did terrible things, maybe he helped Saddam's regime imprison, torture and murder people. But what brings me to tears is the image of the comi-tragic nobility of this man; who, until the bitter end, stood unbowed before his countrymen, attempting to rally to them to resist the foreign invaders of their homeland.

Yes, there was the clear ridiculousness of his futile efforts, but there was also the sublime. A man facing the end of everything he had served and believed in, a man who no doubt fervently wished that his useless fictions were true -- who stood there in unflinching denial of that which he simply would not and could not abide.

So, I mourn him. As I mourn all the uncounted dead in this atrocity that our country has so willfully wrought. All humankind is my family, and a life ended in sorrow and despair grieves me no matter that that person is unknown to me.

Farewell, Ali. You did what you could, you stood fearless before the juggernaut and refused to accept its power over you.

Allah akbar, as-salem alaykum...
sw

Flubadubya (1939 posts)
Apr-15-03, 07:26 PM (ET)
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15. Well scarletwoman...
I'm not at all surprised at your reaction to this. That's the way sensitive, caring people feel about these things. I think it is quite admirable and am glad that you expressed how you felt. Now, if only about another 3 or 4 billion people could be that way.
Remember the line from the BeeGee's little tune that went something like this:

"I started a joke, that started the whole world crying..."

Thank you scarletwoman, thank you very much.

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scarletwoman (3242 posts)
Apr-15-03, 07:42 PM (ET)
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17. Thank you for your kind words.
It bothers me, it hurts my heart, to see people trivialising a life -- any life.
I'm not a Christian, but I respect the teachings of Jesus: "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to Me."

sw