100th UK soldier killed in Iraq: Cambridge Vigil

Simon Mullen | 01.02.2006 20:43 | Cambridge

Vigil for the first 100 UK soldiers killed in Iraq, held in the market square of Cambridge.

Meeting at 6pm

It was so cold

We lit candles

We tried to keep warm

Reading out the names

We reflected on the died

We meet at 6pm and it was very cold.
The names of the 100 dead soldiers were read out.
I thought about their familys, the misery they must be in and how nothing would ever bring these young men and women back.
It was very upset.

Simon Mullen
e-mail: indymedia@simonmullen.com

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01.02.2006 21:20

People begin to arrive

The vigil begins

The vigil continues

About twenty of us listen to the reading of names of the dead

About twenty to twenty five of us came to the Respect vigil to commemorate those killed in Iraq.

The names of some of the British, US and Iraq dead were read out.

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Comments

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What was it that Nuremberg called AGGRESSIVE WAR?

02.02.2006 14:34

"Following the Holocaust, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing . . . to initiate a war of aggression . . . is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

HOW SORRY DO YOU FEEL FOR THOSE THAT PERISH IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE "SUPREME INTERNATIONAL CRIME"?

twilight

Lights, camera,

04.02.2006 23:43

>HOW SORRY DO YOU FEEL FOR THOSE THAT PERISH IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE "SUPREME INTERNATIONAL CRIME"?

Immensely sorry. Unbearably sorry. Relentlessly sorry. I read their story too. How do you manage to distinguish between the victims and yet never suggest realistic retribution against the instigators ?

Not imagination, not impotent-criticism, action.

Danny

Yes, I Feel For The Poor Saps

05.02.2006 05:28

Twilight, many of those poor saps in Iraq, through brainwashing and poor education, honestly believe they're fighting the good fight. I feel bad for them because I see the utter contempt the psychopaths in power feel towards them, and how their entire lives were destroyed, just so these WAR CRIMINALS would have Useful Idiots to further their plans.

I do not, however, feel one bit of pity for the soldiers who are well-educated, but also brutal, and do know exactly what they're doing. They can rot in hell ...

They're Casualties, Too