
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 26, 1991                   TAG: 9102260397
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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MEETING LIKE WITH LIKE

GUESS WHAT? I don't support our troops in the Middle East. I support the human beings who make up our troops and pray for their lives every day. They are human beings first, and only then troops. Likewise, Iraqi people are human beings first and then Iraqis. I pray for their lives, too.

As human beings, the American men and women of our troops are showing great courage and making tremendous sacrifices. But as troops, they are fighting a misguided war whose breath of life came from the U.S. government.

The Iraqi government's invasion of Kuwait is an example of unjustified imperialist aggression. By going beyond all United Nations resolutions and our original stated objectives for this war and destabilizing a country and destroying the lives of many of its people, we are meeting like with like.

I am ashamed of the blood on my hands because of my government and my troops. I am disturbed deeply about the resentment that Arabs and Moslems around the world will harbor for my country for many years to come. I pray for an end to this war and the safe return of the human beings who are our troops. DAVID J. HIRSCHMAN BLACKSBURG

by CNB