DVDROM
03-02-01, 03:21 AM
An added note -- editorial in local newspaper here in Jordan....wondering
why the US and European governments paid NO attention to allegations that
uranium depleted weapons were used in Iraq and causing illness to Iraqis.
ONLY now, when Europeans are dying, is anyone paying attention.
Is that racism or what???
Pat
January 15, 2001
Today is the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-Iraq war. It
seems so long ago. I remember I was in college, and it was in the middle
of winter exams. There was no internet at the time, and a total news
blackout as the U.S. television networks were broadcasting only official
government propaganda and patriotic music (and of course commercials).
I was able to hear what was going on in the free world, only with my
trusted short wave radio, tuned permanently to the BBC World Service. I
remember on the night at Iraq began launching Scud missiles at Israel, I
had an economics exam. I took my radio to the exam with me, and sat at my
desk with earphones on, and a giant antenna extending from my desk. Most
surprisingly, no one wondered what I was doing with receiving equipment in
the middle of an exam.
While any of us can remember with amusement what we were doing ten years
ago in lives and times that were so different, the people of Iraq cannot.
For them the war has never ended. The weapons of mass destruction used
against them continue to take their toll: a civilian infrastructure
deliberately and systematically destroyed so that people must live in and
drink sewage. Sanctions which have effectively withheld all the
necessities of life. Depleted uranium weapons causing unknown harm.
Intellectual starvation of scholars and children alike, so that doctors'
knowledge is ten years out of date, and children, their bodies already
malnourished face a future of spiritual and mental malnourishment as well.
I hope that those who can will join us in Chicago on January 16 to demand
an end to the continuing war in Iraq, and that others will plan or attend
activities in their own areas. Let's make 2001 the year the war against
the Iraqi people finally comes to an end.
Subject: January 16th march against Iraq sanctions
Hello fellow activists,
Please join us on January 16th as we commemorate the innocent victims of
US/UN sanctions on the people of Iraq. January 16th is the tenth
anniversary of the war on Iraq. Ten years of criminal economic sanctions
have led to the deaths of 1.5 million innocent Iraqi citizens, and the
devastation of an entire society.
We will meet at 3:30 on January 16th at the Federal Plaza in downtown
Chicago (at the corner of Dearborn and Adams). There will be speakers
and a funeral procession from the Federal Plaza to the Tribune Tower.
Please wear black.
For more information about the effects of 10 years of sanctions on the
people of Iraq, please see the Peace Action fact sheet at
http://www.peace-action.org/iraqfs.html.
For questions about the march on the 16th, please call me at
312-939-3316.
The January 16th action is sponsored by: Voices in the Wilderness,
American Friends Service Committee, Illinois Peace Action, Eighth Day
Center for Justice, and the Arab-American Action Network
We hope to see you there,
why the US and European governments paid NO attention to allegations that
uranium depleted weapons were used in Iraq and causing illness to Iraqis.
ONLY now, when Europeans are dying, is anyone paying attention.
Is that racism or what???
Pat
January 15, 2001
Today is the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-Iraq war. It
seems so long ago. I remember I was in college, and it was in the middle
of winter exams. There was no internet at the time, and a total news
blackout as the U.S. television networks were broadcasting only official
government propaganda and patriotic music (and of course commercials).
I was able to hear what was going on in the free world, only with my
trusted short wave radio, tuned permanently to the BBC World Service. I
remember on the night at Iraq began launching Scud missiles at Israel, I
had an economics exam. I took my radio to the exam with me, and sat at my
desk with earphones on, and a giant antenna extending from my desk. Most
surprisingly, no one wondered what I was doing with receiving equipment in
the middle of an exam.
While any of us can remember with amusement what we were doing ten years
ago in lives and times that were so different, the people of Iraq cannot.
For them the war has never ended. The weapons of mass destruction used
against them continue to take their toll: a civilian infrastructure
deliberately and systematically destroyed so that people must live in and
drink sewage. Sanctions which have effectively withheld all the
necessities of life. Depleted uranium weapons causing unknown harm.
Intellectual starvation of scholars and children alike, so that doctors'
knowledge is ten years out of date, and children, their bodies already
malnourished face a future of spiritual and mental malnourishment as well.
I hope that those who can will join us in Chicago on January 16 to demand
an end to the continuing war in Iraq, and that others will plan or attend
activities in their own areas. Let's make 2001 the year the war against
the Iraqi people finally comes to an end.
Subject: January 16th march against Iraq sanctions
Hello fellow activists,
Please join us on January 16th as we commemorate the innocent victims of
US/UN sanctions on the people of Iraq. January 16th is the tenth
anniversary of the war on Iraq. Ten years of criminal economic sanctions
have led to the deaths of 1.5 million innocent Iraqi citizens, and the
devastation of an entire society.
We will meet at 3:30 on January 16th at the Federal Plaza in downtown
Chicago (at the corner of Dearborn and Adams). There will be speakers
and a funeral procession from the Federal Plaza to the Tribune Tower.
Please wear black.
For more information about the effects of 10 years of sanctions on the
people of Iraq, please see the Peace Action fact sheet at
http://www.peace-action.org/iraqfs.html.
For questions about the march on the 16th, please call me at
312-939-3316.
The January 16th action is sponsored by: Voices in the Wilderness,
American Friends Service Committee, Illinois Peace Action, Eighth Day
Center for Justice, and the Arab-American Action Network
We hope to see you there,