Data reviewed by the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform weighed the financial pros and cons of relying on private contractors or paramilitaries, such as Blackwater USA,
Iraq
Jim Wallis 1-01-2008
Christian support for the Iraq war raises the critical question: To whom do we belong?
Diana Trepesowsky 12-01-2007
Sojourners magazine was recommended to me by my brother-in-law, so I sent away for a free trial issue.
Jim Wallis 9-01-2007
The war in Iraq should never have been fought, cannot be won, and must now be ended.
Rose Marie Berger, Jonathan Mendez 9-01-2007
William Cavanaugh 7-01-2007
History does not tend to be kind to Christian theologians who demand war.
In a New York Times article titled "A Catholic Debate Mounts on the Meaning of 'Just War'" published
Jenny Duskey 6-01-2007
I was born just before the United States entered World War II, and I've been participating in peace walks and vigils since the war in Vietnam. This was one of the best organized and deeply felt.
Jim King 6-01-2007
Walking beside me was our 15-year-old son, David, and Odess Monsanje, from Zambia, who is living with us for a year.
Laurel Mathewson 6-01-2007
As we stepped out of the cathedral, wind blew snow from the rooftops, past the lit windows of the Cotswold-like cottage beside the cathedral.
Larisa Friesen 6-01-2007
From my seat in the balcony in the National Cathedral, I realized that the crowd I saw numbered nearly the same as the number of American soldiers who had fallen in the last four years.
Phyllis Taylor 6-01-2007
As a Jewish person in this Christian peace witness, I felt affirmed and welcomed by the other participants.
Amy Yarnell 6-01-2007
The depth of my sorrow for the loss of life on all sides seems beyond expression.
Celeste Zappala 6-01-2007
I am Celeste Zappala, of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia, of Military Families Speak Out, and, sadly, of Gold Star Families Speak Out, because I am the mother of a f
Raphael G. Warnock 6-01-2007
Whenever there are billions of dollars and then billions more available to bomb Baghdad, but never enough to rebuild New Orleans, an American city, parts of which still look like a Third World coun
Colin Mathewson 6-01-2007
No one person, and yet seemingly every person in on the planning of this event, was in charge.
Anonymous Iraqi Woman 6-01-2007
There were dozens of people in a bleak group. It's a very specific look, one you will find only outside the Baghdad morgue.