Uzbekistan. Last summer I read that Uzbekistan's dictator had visited the White House.
There was a small item about the visit in the Washington Post. The cruelty of the
"stans" dictators is well known so we don't have to elaborate on their barbaric actions here.
Also, I picked up another item last summer that said Rummy visited one of the
"stans." As you say, the dictators are corrupt but if Bush gives them money it is possible
that a few of the dictators in the area may say they support Bush's war on Iraq.
The map passed by on tv so quickly I was unable to see if fully. I guess the point was that very
few countries supported Bush.
At this time only one thing seems certain, Bush intends to pursue his war on Iraq. I saw the
prominent Republican strategist Norquist (unsure of spelling) on Bill Moyer's, NOW program
a few weeks ago. He seemed confident that the war would start in February, I believe.
To be sure, you might Moyer's interview with him on the web. I don't have time to look it up.
I am so fed up with all the emphasis on war. At least Washington State Senator, Patty Murray
fights for Amtrack and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is giving $200 million to research
the causes of death in developing countries and to entice scientists to try and solve them.
When you wrote about dishonest propaganda, the US press should be criticized because it
has never told the American public at great length that the US attack on Iraq in 1991 created serious health
problems for the Iraqi people and especially their children. We all know Saddam poisoned the
Kurds. We know he is a bad man, but the US destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure is also
terrible.
Some scientists believe the depleted uranium left in the sand by weapons that the US
used has been responsible for birth defects and other health problems because they
produce toxic dust and low levels of radiation which infiltrate the food chain.
(The Navy has used depleted uranium in the
waters off our coasts. I'll post a story about it.)
Also, the sanctions on Iraq contributed to the
deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children, according to a report by UNICEF in 1999.
According to the information that was passed out to me at a public meeting,
the UNICEF report was never mentioned
on the three main TV nightly news shows.
The New England Journal of Medicine has published studies on the impact of the Gulf war
and the trade sanctions on the Iraqi people. One study concluded that there was "strong evidence
that the Gulf War and trade sanctions caused a threefold increase in mortality among
Iraqi children under five years of age. We estimate that an excess of more
than 46,900 children died between January and August 1991."
(N ENGL J MED 1992;327:931-6). This article was published in 1992!
When the US destroyed power plants in the Gulf War, they destroyed the water purification system
to a halt. There have been epidemics of cholera, typhoid fever, and gastroenteritis, particularly among children.
Information about the the epidemics was published in a special article in The New England
Journal of Medicine, Volume 336(17) April 24, 1997, pp. 1248-1250
by Leon Eisenberg, M.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
The title of the article is, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters--Human Costs."
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Many articles about the devastation of the US attack on Iraq have been published by
credible organizations but the US press doesn't want to concentrate on these reports. When
we attended a public meeting in December we received several pages that mentioned the
above studies and other information.
The US blames SADDAM for everything that is wrong in Iraq, but the US refuses to accept
responsibility for the way we harmed the Iraqi people in the 1991 Gulf War. JMOP |
