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I attended a talk by Joe Mueller at Cleveland’s Catholic Worker House. \u00a0 Mr. Mueller is a Christian Peacekeeper Team member who has been to Iraq twice. \u00a0 On his first trip, last year, the Peacekeeper Team that came in after his was abducted. One of the members, Tom Fox, was killed. \u00a0 In the face of such danger, Mr. Mueller went back because he said he believes in a “radical” interpretation of the Gospel message: \u00a0 “He who lays down his life for another…” \u00a0 He said Christian peace activists should be as committed to dying to prevent war, as soldiers are committed to dying in war. \u00a0 Mr. Mueller said fear is absolutely “pervasive” in Iraq now, with all the bombs, kidnappings and targetted assissinations… \u00a0 He said a general consensus among the Iraqis he’s talked to is that America is there to set themselves up in a strategic position to control the oil. \u00a0 “Why don’t they just take all the oil and leave,” Mr. Mueller said many Iraqis seem to be saying at this point. \u00a0 What’s more, he said America’s insatiable demand for oil is the crux of the problem. \u00a0 He also said that, in general, the U.S. has 5% of the world population and uses 30% of the resources (including oil). \u00a0 “We need addiction counselors. \u00a0 We live with such excess (in comparison to much of the world),” \u00a0 Mr. Mueller lamented. \u00a0 He added that a reason why more \u00a0Americans aren’t taking to the streets to protest the war is because they have no “personal attachment” to the people in Iraq. \u00a0 And he added that it mystified him that with all the graphic footage of the carnage in Iraq, we can still remain so “apathetic.” \u00a0 Note: \u00a0 For our position paper<\/a> on Iraq…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended a talk by Joe Mueller at Cleveland’s Catholic Worker House. \u00a0 Mr. Mueller is a Christian Peacekeeper Team member who has been to Iraq twice. \u00a0 On his first trip, last year, the Peacekeeper Team that came in …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}