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December 15, 2004

Evil does exist

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
nothing."
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

There was a series this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer about our Cambodian refugees. It seems that Philly has the fourth largest concentration of Cambodians in the states.

And yet, if it weren't for the movie The Killing Fields, I don't think any of us would know anything about Cambodia. What's scary is that most people still don't know anything about Cambodia.

The story of
Bunrath, a local man who decided to go back to look for his lost family members, made me cry. I cannot begin to imagine the horrors endured by these people. Horrors inflicted by their own people.

Kind of like what Saddam and his brood visited upon the people of Iraq.

I don't think it was the right war for any reason but one. Saddam was evil. His now dead sons were evil. They aren't killing anymore. No more mass graves in their name.

I'm very, very sorry that some of our own people have died ousting him. But if our soldiers are going to die for a cause, this one is worthy.

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