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From: Leland Milton Goldblatt PhD (drgoldblatt6@netscape.net)
Subject: Bush lied now children are collateral damage
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Date: 2004-04-05 20:02:34 PST
I remember playing basketball with an Iraqi in the late 80s while Iran
and Iraq were at war. I didn't know at the time that the US and
Britain were supplying weapons to both sides. I asked why they were
always at war with each other and he said something that stayed with
me: "If it were up to the people, there would be peace. It's the
governments that create war." And now my government is creating its
second war in less than a year. No; war requires two combatants, so I
should say "its second bombing campaign".
I went to the White House when Harvey Weinstein was showing Clinton
the movie Welcome to Sarejevo, which I was in. I got a few moments
alone with Clinton. Saddam throwing out the weapons inspectors was all
over the news and I asked what he was going to do. His answer was very
revealing. He said: "Everybody is telling me to bomb him. All the
military are saying, 'You gotta bomb him.' But if even one innocent
person died, I couldn't bear it." And I looked in his eyes and I
believed him. Little did I know he was blocking humanitarian aid at
the time, allowing the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
I am a father, and no amount of propaganda can convince me that half a
million dead children is acceptable "collateral damage". The fact is
that Saddam Hussein was our boy. The CIA helped him to power, as they
did the Shah of Iran and Noriega and Marcos and the Taliban and
countless other brutal tyrants. The fact is that George Bush Sr
continued to supply nerve gas and technology to Saddam even after he
used it on Iran and then the Kurds in Iraq. While the Amnesty
International report listing countless Saddam atrocities, including
gassing and torturing Kurds, was sitting on his desk, Bush Sr pushed
through a $2bn "agricultural" loan and Thatcher gave hundreds of
millions in export credit to Saddam. The elder Bush then had the
audacity to quote the Amnesty reports to garner support for his oil
war.
A decade later, Shrub follows the same line: "We have no quarrel with
the Iraqi people." I'm sure half a million Iraqi parents are
scratching their heads over that. I'm an American tired of lies. And
with our government, it's mostly lies.
Shalom,
---Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®<br>
www.prof.faithweb.com
drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/
www.voxfux.com
www.bushflash.com/nazi.html
(773) 731-1100
Subject: Bush lied now children are collateral damage
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Date: 2004-04-05 20:02:34 PST
I remember playing basketball with an Iraqi in the late 80s while Iran
and Iraq were at war. I didn't know at the time that the US and
Britain were supplying weapons to both sides. I asked why they were
always at war with each other and he said something that stayed with
me: "If it were up to the people, there would be peace. It's the
governments that create war." And now my government is creating its
second war in less than a year. No; war requires two combatants, so I
should say "its second bombing campaign".
I went to the White House when Harvey Weinstein was showing Clinton
the movie Welcome to Sarejevo, which I was in. I got a few moments
alone with Clinton. Saddam throwing out the weapons inspectors was all
over the news and I asked what he was going to do. His answer was very
revealing. He said: "Everybody is telling me to bomb him. All the
military are saying, 'You gotta bomb him.' But if even one innocent
person died, I couldn't bear it." And I looked in his eyes and I
believed him. Little did I know he was blocking humanitarian aid at
the time, allowing the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
I am a father, and no amount of propaganda can convince me that half a
million dead children is acceptable "collateral damage". The fact is
that Saddam Hussein was our boy. The CIA helped him to power, as they
did the Shah of Iran and Noriega and Marcos and the Taliban and
countless other brutal tyrants. The fact is that George Bush Sr
continued to supply nerve gas and technology to Saddam even after he
used it on Iran and then the Kurds in Iraq. While the Amnesty
International report listing countless Saddam atrocities, including
gassing and torturing Kurds, was sitting on his desk, Bush Sr pushed
through a $2bn "agricultural" loan and Thatcher gave hundreds of
millions in export credit to Saddam. The elder Bush then had the
audacity to quote the Amnesty reports to garner support for his oil
war.
A decade later, Shrub follows the same line: "We have no quarrel with
the Iraqi people." I'm sure half a million Iraqi parents are
scratching their heads over that. I'm an American tired of lies. And
with our government, it's mostly lies.
Shalom,
---Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. ®<br>
www.prof.faithweb.com
drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/
www.voxfux.com
www.bushflash.com/nazi.html
(773) 731-1100