--- Lucy Hone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin wrote > > Unfortunately we will be at war in a few days and > yet another country is > on the USA hate list. > > My reply......... [...] > it struck me how mad and how > skewed this world is, and how > all our realities, whether for or against the war, > are trembling on the brink > of some huge abyss; fearful of the drop we know must > come, but aware (and > unable to avoid) the updraft of hate and > misinformation that will bear us > aloft.
"Surely some revelation is at hand Surely it's the second coming And the wrath has finally taken form" (Joni and WB Yeats) In a few words: I'm scared. It's so easy to get caught up in rhetoric and shift from neutral into blind hate. This morning on the front page of the Toronto Star (Mitch Potter byline), I read about the Saddam Tower in Baghdad*. (Its real name is the Challenge Tower, but people call it the Saddam Tower.) Reading the following made my blood boil: "Rebuilt to twice the original height after it was toppled by a missile in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the stout concrete communications spear looms a full 203 metres over this city of imposing presidential monoliths. Up top, a sumptuous skydeck restaurant... Below, a larger-than-life bronze statue of Saddam Hussein gloats in triump, the dismbodied heads of George Bush, the elder, and Margaret Thatcher lyving vanquished at his feet." Saddam must be stopped, but bombing Iraqis isn't the answer. What is? I have no idea. I'm scared and my kids are scared and I don't know what to tell them apart from, "They don't have bombs that can reach here." I'm lost for words. Iraqis have kids too - what are they telling their kids? * full article can be found here: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=dfc469a03e2488a9&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035779260536&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154 NP: Alison Moyet - "Winter kills" (this is a good song, eerie.) ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
