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March 24, 2003 A Mortal Addiction Blood Sacrifice By DIANE CHRISTIAN Most Americans don’t do blood sacrifice, except for giving blood to the Red Cross. Most Americans don’t kill goats or sheep or chickens ritually. If they drink the blood of Christ it’s wine or grape juice. As we watch the reports of our fighting men making the ultimate sacrifice we don’t see mangled bodies and blood, but faces of family pain and official piety.Mothers say he died doing what he loved in service of a cause he believed in. We change the blood into fine noble wine. The Secretary of Defense is already tipsy. Our now-dry President is in the grip of a mortal addiction. Diane Christian is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at University at Buffalo. She can be reached at: engdc@acsu.buffalo.edu Today's Features David Lindorff Peacekeepers at Ground Zero Diane Christian Blood Sacrifice Kathy Kelly The Morning After Shock and Awe John Stanton US Bombs Iran Wayne Madsen How to Live with a Rogue Superpower Anthony Gancarski Iraq and the Death of the West David Vest Earth vs. Bush Ahmad Faruqui The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective Robert Fisk We Bomb, They Suffer Website of the War Iraq Body Count Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /

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