(from Jason Evans)

As the war in Iraq draws to a close, I pray that the gaping wounds it has left might not go unattended, so that they fester and spread the germs of yet another conflict. I pray for all of the wounded: victims and profiteers, soldiers and civilians, cheerleaders and dissenters. For the President, but also for the mothers of the dead. For the civilians lying in Baghdad’s looted hospitals, but also for those in the military hospitals of Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Because as Martin Luther King once said, “The judgment of God is upon us. And unless we learn to live together as brothers, we will perish together as fools.”

- Johann Christoph Arnold