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"I remember visiting one of the hospitals in Iraq. The doctors walked us by bed after bed of children who had been injured or killed in the bombings. I saw a little girl shaking in her bed, asking over and over, "What did I do to America? What did I do to America?" I saw a father hold his child, whose body was speckled with missile fragments, and heard him say, "What kind of liberation would do this to my child? If this is liberation, then we do not want it. If this is democracy, they can keep it." I could hear the echo of the words of Dr. King (speaking of Vietnam): "They must see us as strange liberators." The doctors had tears in their eyes as they explained that they had not slept in days and had seen over a hundred casualties in the first three hours. Amid all of the horror, the manager of the hospital said something I will never forget: "Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Has your country lost its imagination?" I will never forget the tears in his eyes as he cried for imagination." (Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical)