It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

If people don't go and see it for themselves, these people are in danger of being demonized. I just felt that I could not sit by.

They say it's an export _ Export! _ of services to Iraq, as if a human being is a commodity that can be shipped like light bulbs.

In rejecting my suit in District Court, the judge relied on the initial sanctions law against Iraq of 1990, a response to the limited and specific situation of the Iraq invasion of Kuwait. It was created to limit economic interactions with Iraq. Yet this same law is being applied to humanitarian travel to pre-war Iraq. Under this interpretation, buying food while on such a mission is a crime.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

This was a bitter pill to swallow. This was one we felt we could get. We couldn't pull it off.