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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: PartyTime who started this subject	1/31/2003 10:23:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 25898

Interesting story about the Houston areas contribution to the Washington peace march. A total of 42 people made the trip. I was struck by the number - a whopping 42 people from the fourth largest city in the country. And some of those came from San Antonio, Austin, Nacogdoches, Beaumont, etc. So this was actually the representation of the whole east and central Texas region, not just Houston. You know if there were half a million people at that march, there must have been a godawful bunch of Californians. Say Dallas-Fort Worth and north Texas contributed as many as the Beaumont-San Antonio area. Be generous and say 100 total for Texas. Now Texas has 20M people and the US has 280M. I mean a real godawful bunch of Californios! They all paid $150 each to ride there and back in a bus. What a fun time it must have been. Long-distance travelers may be accustomed to in-flight entertainment, and the Light Blue Behemoth brings its own promise of tedium-busters. Somewhere in Alabama, eight tiny overhead TVs begin flickering with images: Palestinians in headdresses are throwing rocks at Israeli tanks. Rubac explains on the bus mike that this video details the awful conditions the Palestinians are subjected to under a brutal Israeli occupation. The soundtrack is an avalanche of Middle Eastern percussion mixed with undulating Arabian chants. There is no dialogue, only scenes of young Israeli soldiers firing bullets and tear gas into crowds of young rioters. Other videos carry messages of Arab antiwar groups and the American military's use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War -- activists say it left a radioactive sheen over Iraq that still causes deaths and birth defects today. I wonder if anybody asked why the depleted uranium would leave a "radioactive sheen over Iraq" when the war was fought in Kuwait? I'll just bet they didn't. houstonpress.com

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