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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; iraq</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>the lessons of vietnam?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/08/25/the-lessons-of-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/08/25/the-lessons-of-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, George Bush compared the consequences of an immediate withdrawal from Iraq with the results of the withdrawal of American troops from Viet Nam: One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America&#8217;s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like boat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ucc petition to end the iraq war</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/06/22/ucc-petition-to-end-the-iraq-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/06/22/ucc-petition-to-end-the-iraq-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with thousands of United Church of Christ members and supporters, I call for an end to the war in Iraq, an end to our reliance on violence as the first, rather than the last resort, an end to the arrogant unilateralism of preemptive war. I call for the humility and courage to acknowledge failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>general petraeus&#8217; letter to the troops</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/12/general-petraeus-letter-to-the-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/12/general-petraeus-letter-to-the-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 02:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human_dignity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is good, very good, to hear General Petraeus talk about dignity, respect, and integrity, values, law, and doing what is right. It is good to hear him take an unequivocal stand against torture, both because it is wrong and because it serves no useful purpose. It is good to hear him emphasize the first [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>video vets project</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/23/video-vets-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/23/video-vets-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[veterans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq war veterans and their families speak out &#8230; for the troops, against the war.]]></description>
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		<title>containment and the war on terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/30/containment-and-the-war-on-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/30/containment-and-the-war-on-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover. Advocates of containment were accused of appeasement. But now we know that the containment regime worked: Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq was in no position to threaten anyone, let alone the United States. That&#8217;s the first paragraph of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>torture hurts all of us</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/29/torture-hurts-all-of-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/29/torture-hurts-all-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started realizing that most of the prisoners were innocent. We were torturing people for no reason. I started getting really angry and really remorseful and by the time I got back I completely broke down. I&#8217;m from New York City. I&#8217;m college-educated. But you put me in Iraq and told me to torture, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a conversation that needs to happen, but won&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/28/a-conversation-that-needs-to-happen-but-wont/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/28/a-conversation-that-needs-to-happen-but-wont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immoral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral-purpose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[will-of-the-people]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s New York Times: Bush Vows Not to Negotiate on Iraq Timetable A defiant President Bush vowed today not to negotiate with Congress about setting a date for withdrawing American troops from Iraq, and he said the American people would blame lawmakers if there is any delay in approving money for the war effort. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on the subject of the war in iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/16/on-the-subject-of-the-war-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/16/on-the-subject-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peace_rally]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I reprint for you here an excerpt of the remarks Jim Wallis will make at a Christian peace rally to be held this evening in Washingon, D.C. His words are powerful and passionate and perceptive and faithful to the gospel of Jesus. As Christians, we must discern and root out the fear in our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>keeping things in perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/15/keeping-things-in-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/15/keeping-things-in-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blood is in the water. Democrats (joined now by Republican John Sununu) want Alberto Gonzales dismissed from his job as attorney general for his abrupt firing of eight US attorneys. There may well be justification in condemning the political nature of the firings, but it is hard for me to get too worked up [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>love and war</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/02/25/love-and-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/02/25/love-and-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green_papaya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We were visited by a major winter storm in Iowa this weekend, and our Saturday and Sunday plans (which were many!) were cancelled. We enjoyed some good down time, a fire in the fireplace, and we watched two movies, two among the list of movies we have been wanting to preview. The two movies could [...]]]></description>
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