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Date: 26 March 2003 13:51:00
Thank you, Nanny, for that thought. Of course, it will still feel like 4 am.
I don't think, Karin, that media coverage of the war in Iraq can be the direct cause of first born's bad dreams. She's been troubled in this way for a while, now. Our television shows mainly reruns of MilkShake. Perhaps that's an exaggeration, but I don't think that our children have been subjected to quite the quantity of images of war that they might have. The other night, though, first born asked me "Why did Jesus make bombers?" I tried to explain that bombers are made by ordinary people. The father of one of her friends used to work for British Aerospace (resisted the temptation to put in a link there).
Just reading the news this morning that bombs have landed in a Baghdad market. Can't think of words, except to go back to our parliament and ask - is this what you voted for? I recall after the war in Afghanistan, somebody commenting, after it was all over, that they hoped that those who had opposed the war would shut up, since it had been so obviously successful (except that I thought that they were trying to catch Bin Laden). Are the people who think that this war is a good idea prepared to take responsibility, or are they going to say that because it wasn't intended, it doesn't count?
Sorry. I know that it isn't that simple. But even I was thinking, over the past couple of nights, listening to reports of B-52s 'pounding' Republican Guard positions, presumably near to Baghdad, that sooner or later, one of those bombs will go astray.