What was important in that article, Allan, was that the Germans perceive our leaders to be waging their own fundamentalist holy war, chosen by God, based upon their prayer certified aggression.
For how many years now have we waged war on Iraq? (You must not be reading the stuff coming through GN even though you're on the list. Curtis has been posting stories about this for months. Check out the archives.) Sanctions, uranium poison, planes dropping bombs in the sidelines? Targeting water treatment plants, electrical facilities? The reality of this nightmare, is that if just a small percentage of the war machine's budget, were used to clean up the leftover landmines, DU and poisoned wells THAT ALREADY remain behind from the last Gulf War, we could end many varieties of death by malnutrition because of water borne illnesses, we could set up sustainable agricultural projects, we could help people help themselves (teach-a-man-to-fish-story folks on this list are so fond of), set up rural medical centers, etc. If we used the whole budget now being spent to send our own young people off to be canon fodder and the cost of arms and deplorable new weapons of mass destruction (that our country produces and sells wholesale to places like, you guessed it (!) Iraq) then we could probably clean up all the dirty wells in third world countries providing a great foundation to end world hunger, rampant water borne illness, etc etc etc. I cast my vote for worldwide disarmament NOW! We are the largest producers and sellers of weapons of mass destruction. I vote for dumping all those thanatos devices now everywhere in the world. Why people, excuse me, so called leaders, think it is possible to use these nuclear weapons is beyond my comprehension. We are way past the point where such nightmares should exist. For weeks, now I have been asking myself, what would Ghandi do if he were an Iraqi? And the answer I keep receiving is the same one. It is not up to individual charismatic leaders to find a solution, but rather that we, the people, individually and together should resist injustice in every way that we can. Here in the US, a lot of that would look like how you vote with your dollars. That's just one solution. Blessings, Jane > From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:17:39 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: [globalnews] Der Spiegel: Fundamentalist Bush Regime Wants > Crusade Against Islam; Bush Believes God Put Him in Oval Office (Long) > > I found this post to be rather blowsy, opinionated and unimportant, Jane
