Last night, I spoke with my ER doc who went to Iraq. He said the trade sanctions are really hurting the people. They recognize the difference between Americans and our government, aren't really upset with the people. He said they asked him to tell our government not to kill them and, more importantly, not to kill their children.
Maybe some quiet night, I can get him on the net, or maybe he has a little diary or something he will let me distribute.
What we have is a pretty sad and tragic situation. I will cop to being more concerned about the effects of a war on us, but it was so sad listening to him say "Ask the Americans not to kill my son".etc.
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PS Pretty amazing numbers for the demonstrations; getting to be the size of the biggest ones during Nam, and no shots have even been fired.Unfortunately, it looks like the Shrubites are reacting the way I thought they would; doesn't mean a thing to them. My hope is a) I get to one of these B4 the war, and b) the opposition here stirs up the Brits enuf to keep Blair out of it. Shrub can't see the people, but I'll bet you Thamester and a lot of others did.
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