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To: Thomas M. who wrote (50856)	10/10/2002 1:52:37 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Comments from Pulitzer Prize winning Tony Kushner... [Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Angels in America--Part One: Millennium Approaches."] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Baltimore Sun I'm not a pacifist. I believe that war is sometimes necessary and certainly war can be just. But war is a ghastly business; it isn't a video game, it isn't a movie, it isn't the cowboy drama or the simplistic religious pageant of good and evil evoked every time our president ... and his team of petrochemical industry handlers talk about attacking Iraq. This planned attack has nothing to do with combatting terrorism, it has nothing to do with 9/11, and it is incredibly disgusting to hear the selfsame people who built up Hussein in the 1980s and gave him weapons-development capability now speak of his wretched dictatorship in tones of offended shocked superiority. If we bomb Baghdad, a city of 5 million people, thousands of innocent Iraqis will most certainly die. I have no idea how many young Americans will die, and no one else knows either. ... There are serious, perhaps cataclysmic, global implications to such an attack, starting with the destabilization of Iraq and then possibly of the whole region. Every alternative to war should be tried. Is this haste driven by an imminent external threat to the U.S. or an imminent internal threat to the Bush administration in the form of the upcoming congressional election? We'll never be asked a more important question. Copyright © 2002, The Baltimore Sun sunspot.net

To: Thomas M. who wrote (50856)	10/10/2002 9:22:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

First you were wrong about the 12 casulties. Now you say, CIA backing of the Miskitos is what initiated the hostilities. Well, is that what happened? >>>> A final sad story of ethnic terror in the third world has been the genocidal war carried on by the brutal Sandinistas against the mild-mannered Miskito Indians of that country's Atlantic Coast. The event was triggered when the Miskito's would not submit to Communist rule, similar to the situation in Ethiopia/Eritrea. Writer Michael Utter relates, The predominantly peace-loving, evangelical Miskito, Rama, and Suma Indians of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast have taken up arms against the Sandinista government. Largely ignored by previous Nicaraguan governments, they have enjoyed a communal land ownership system and self-government through a Council of Elders... The Miskito torment began in 1979, just three months after the Sandinistas came to power. The Council of Elders was replaced with Sandinista revolutionary cadres who initiated reeducation programs designed to indoctrinate the humble Christian Indians with Marxist revolutionary propaganda... Sandinista obstruction of Miskito traditions and beliefs met with strong protest. The Indians demanded that their land and their autonomy be restored, their Christian beliefs restored, and that their Cuban teachers leave. The Sandinistas claimed the resistance was sponsored by the CIA and was counter-revolutionary. Mass arrests and murder of Indian leaders followed. This is merely another example of the universal aspiration of self-determination that each people possess. And it is also another instance of Communist integrationism denying the nationalistic longings of a nation and attempting to merge distinct peoples into a single geopolitical entity. <<< mindspring.com