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Today, May 4, marks the 37th anniversary of the Kent State massacre. On this date in 1970, four Kent State University students were killed, and nine were wounded, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of kids who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Four dead in O-hi-o.
Today we are fighting a similarly unpopular war. We haven't seen Iraq war protesters gunned down like those at Kent State. (Knock on wood.) But maybe that's because the National Guard is so busy in Iraq, following George W. Bush's orders to "liberate" (read: "destroy") that country, and killing and maiming innocent Iraqi men, women, and children in the process. Certainly the Bush administration is no less arrogant and agenda-driven than the Nixon administration.
Why does this kind of history have to repeat itself?
Why do we keep putting greedy crooks and liars into the highest positions of power in this country?
Will peace, sanity, and human rights ever prevail for the long term?
Will we ever have a world in which those in charge value mankind more than money, people more than power, reason more than revenge, and kindness more than killing?
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