Some Mothers' Daughters - The Silence.

Felicity Arbuthnot

Where are you Cindy Sheehan? On May 12th 2006 you wrote of: 'A Perfect Mother's Day Gift'. You invoked the horror of Julia Ward Howe, who penned the verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic : '... so horrified at the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mothers Day of Peace' , a Proclomation published in 1870. You are engaged by this writing : 'By 1873 , eighteen cities celebrated (the day) ' ... still, today, we have the enduring legacy of Mothers' Day.' (...) Now there is a new meaning to International Womens Day (with the flacid, impotent UN, silent, as ever.) Three women are to be hanged without trial, legal representation, in Iraq around this time. (Democrocy, US/UK style.) Wassam Talib is thirty one and has her three year old with her in prison. Zainab Fadhil is thirty five and Liqa Mohammed (twenty five or twenty six, but around the age of your son, reports differ) is still breast feeding the baby she gave birth to in prison. Reports say they may be executed today - for allegedly aiding the resistance. Since there has been no meaningful trial, who knows? But resisting an illegal invasion (the 'supreme crime' under the Nuremberg rulings, is entirely legitimate.)...

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