Sept 11 was nothing in comparison

Posted by Globe Trotter on September 17, 2002 at 01:32:03:

If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11,
please observe a moment of silence for the 5,000 civilian lives lost in
the New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania attacks.

While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence for the 130,000
Iraqi civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take
another moment to remember how Americans celebrated and cheered in the
streets.

Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000 Iranians killed by
Iraqi soldiers using weapons and money provided to young Saddam Hussein
by the American government before the great eagle turned all its power
against Iraq.

Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and 150,000 Afghans
killed by troops supported and trained by the CIA. Plus 10 minutes of
silence for 300,000 Japanese killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the
Atomic bombs dropped by the USA.

We've just kept quiet for one hour: one minute for the Americans killed
in NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their victims throughout
the world.

If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of silence for all
those killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans like to
admit. The US went to another continent thousands of miles away and
burnt tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants with napalm. Or for the
massacre in Panama in 1989, where American troops attacked poor
villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead.

Or for the millions of children who have died because of the USA
embargoes on Iraq and Cuba. Or the hundreds of thousands brutally
murdered throughout the world by US-sponsored civil wars and coups
d'etat (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador to
name a few).

Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims otherwise, someone
may remember the USA attack on Baghdad where 18,000 civilians were
killed. Did someone see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or was
there even any retaliation?

We hope that Americans finally begin to understand their vulnerability
and the attacks and other tragedies that they have caused around the
world. The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of the Towers,
maybe even more!

What about the 560,000 Iraqi children (as per current UN data) who have
died as a direct cause of the US supported sanctions against Iraq? Are
these the children of a lesser God? What about a new generation of
nearly one million Iraqi children who are currently having their lives
being ruined by improper nutrition, lack of medicine and inferior
education because of US supported sanctions.


Now, let's talk about terrorism, shall we?

Responses:

1. Re: Sept 11 was nothing in comparison LEWIS B. SCKOLNICK 09/20/02 (0)

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