HONOLULU MAYOR DECRIES IRAQ’S PACIFIC TOLL Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/07/2007 - 00:00
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (NiuFM, May 7) – A number of Samoan servicemen and women have died in the Iraqi War and their bodies have had to go via Hawaii to get home.
And Mufi Hannemann, the mayor of Honolulu, has had the sad job of hosting them.
Hannemann, who is here for the Pacific Futures Trade Conference in Auckland, says America s War on Terror has cost billions of dollars and many lives.
He says Honolulu, a growing city needing resources, is having to [cope] with the war and that he s sad to see so many young American Samoan servicemen and women head home in body bags.