Propoganda and the Faces of War
During wartime even more than peacetime, the news channels become a propoganda-machine for whoever they support. News coverage becomes even more slanted than before and it becomes difficult to discern the truth. So, just as CNN and american news channels are telling us how wonderful America is and showing images of our brave soldiers, the Arabic news channels are going to show images that will paint us bad. Still, these pictures from Al Jazeera give us the face of war that American news channels will try to avoid. This is collateral damage. This is suffering. This is why I am against war.

There is something I've been meaning to mention for a while. A friend stated a while back that, while she was against this war, she wouldn't protest because she wasn't for "Peace for peace's sake" and that at times war is justified. I've been to a few protests over the last year and I want to say that most of these people would not argue that war is always wrong. "Those people" have always been out there protesting every war. The reason there are so many more people out there protesting these days is because the people protesting oppose this war for many reasons and most of them are out there because this war is so completely wrong and immoral, no matter how Bush paints it.

However, I do believe that war is always wrong. That is something I believe in my heart. It is part of my morality. Logically, I know that there could be times that I would end up supporting a war and putting aside my "high horse," but my own personal, religious and moral beliefs are that anything done to cause suffering is wrong and that the only way to bring about a world who no longer uses war as a way to end conflicts is by making that change within myself. If I ever raise a fist or gun in anger, I will have failed my own beliefs, no matter what the events are that caused me to do so.