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Repasso remessa do amigo Silva Costa. - c.a.t. www.iis.com.br/~cat ----- Original Message ----- From: "J C Silva Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "eu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 8:49 AM Subject: TEXTO IRAQ Repasso texto de Judy Ray, de outra lista (Writers) de que participo h� anos. Judy � americana e vive nos EEUU. Da� eu repassar seu texto. --- Of the twelve men whose pictures were shown tonight on the News Hour's honor roll of those who have died in Iraq, 13 were younger than my son. 13 were 21, 22 or 23. My heart ached to see those pictures flash by. My heart ached for the other, too, the 37 year old. They were too all young to die in a war we didn't need to fight. And today we have the Senate report on the complete failure of our intelligence community on the question that would have provided the moral underpinning for a preemptive war. There were no WMD in Iraq. The Iraqi's and the inspectors were saying just that in the months before the war, but apparently our President, who has the ultimate power and responsibility for taking us to war, didn't believe them. Even though, according to Woodward, he himself had questioned the evidence the CIA presented to him. Wouldn't you think that if you'd had early questions about the validity of your own intelligence information, when impartial inspectors couldn't find WMD, even when supplied with some of that same intelligence, wouldn't you think you'd be less, not more, determined to start a war of choice? Things aren't even necessarily better for the people of Iraq since we went to war. Sure, Saddam isn't there any more, but, according to Christian Parenti in this months issue of The Nation, the only highway in or out of Baghdad that's safe to travel is a road north through Kurdistan to Turkey or Iraq. Even the road from the Baghdad airport has been nicknamed "RPG alley" by the soldiers and security forces that travel it. "This road is ridiculous", said a British soldier. "The First Cav should have checkpoints every few clicks. And they should clear all surrounding areas. I have no idea how they think this is supposed to work without a secure airport." Planes landing at Baghdad airport have to use a spiral dive maneuver to help avoid missiles and ground fire. The director of the Baghdad morgue says he sees an average of 600 unsolved murders a month; there are many more cases they don't receive, he says. Cheap imports from China and Iran have flooded the Iraqi market, causing even more unemployment for Iraqi people. There is no effective sewer in the Sadr city portion of Baghdad and the last of the four special trucks they had to unclog the sewers were recently commandeered by the U.S. Army for use elsewhere in the city. The newly installed Iraqi government, the one with sham sovereignity, is about to declare a state of emergency. Before Bremer left last month, he issued over 100 edicts. Among them he empowered an appointed electoral commission to "eliminate political parties or candidates" it disapproves of. That's a feature of democracy I've never heard of before. He also barred political parties with militias (which eliminates all traditional Iraqi parties), banned "hate speech" and advocacy of terrorism, providing yet another way to censor or disqualify candidates, extended an order granting US and foreign civilian contractors immunity from Iraqi law, and gave 5 year appointments to his Iraqi cronies to important government positions such as head of intelligence and head of national security. Oh, and he extended economic regulations that do everything from limiting taxation of foreign corporations to permitting full foreign ownership of Iraqi companies. Why aren't the people of the US in the streets, demanding Bush et.al. resign? How can George Bush answer a question about mistakes he's made by saying "I can't think of any right now"? Does he have no shame? J. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- J C Silva Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://silvacosta.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- �timo dia pra voc�. <*> Para comentar esta mensagem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Para assinar a lista onde se comenta: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goldenlist-L/join Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goldenlist/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
