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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/04/ED65111.DTL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- from Thursday, April 4, 2002 (SF Chronicle) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";></A> ORWELLIAN 'PEACE' Editor -- Your headlines are becoming genuinely Orwellian. I read "Bush reaffirms push for peace" (April 1) and asked myself, "Are we on the same planet?" This is the president who has declared war against an undefined foe using unlimited funding of unrestricted means for an indefinite period of time. This is literally, as George Orwell called it, "perpetual war for perpetual peace." Is that the "peace" you meant in the headline? President Bush has asked for a greater increase in next year's military budget than is spent in total by all of our enemies in the world combined. He has announced a barbaric new willingness to use nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. He has signaled to all the world that he's planning an invasion of Iraq, apparently just in time for the November elections. He winks while our closest client-state, Israel, wages what U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls "full scale war" on the Palestinians. Bush is accelerating a truly aggressive Star Wars scheme to achieve first-strike capabilities against any enemy anywhere on Earth. He repudiates international inspections for biological weapons, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and restrictions on the use of children as combatants. Tell me again: Where is the "push for peace"? ROBERT FREEMAN Palo Alto ===== Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace. Weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland. Starts & ends at the colonnade between Grand & Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday. Info: (510)763-8712, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
