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To: Cooters who wrote (360029)	2/15/2003 9:59:42 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

all good points. yet today all you could hear at the "peace" marches was "imperialist America this" and "imperialist America that"..... makes you wonder, doesn't it?

To: Cooters who wrote (360029)	2/15/2003 10:19:55 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 769670

Indeed, it is a complicated issue. I doubt most people have given your questions much thought. I found this on the FADG thread. It points to the seriousness of the situation, and how important it is to those who matter most.....the Iraqi people. M Voice of dissent: Blair uses words of Iraqi exile, 19 timesonline.co.uk THE prime minister seized on the words of an exiled 19-year-old Iraqi student yesterday to reinforce his case for regime change in Iraq. Rania Kashi, a first-year student at Cambridge University, had written an e-mail to half a dozen friends querying their decision to join the anti-war protests and telling them what Saddam Hussein had done to her country and to her family. Her relatives decided that her impassioned words deserved a wider audience and a copy of her message was passed to Tony Blair by an Iraqi opposition group he met on a visit to Glasgow. He quoted from it when he spoke at Labour’s spring conference in the city. Kashi, from Wembley, northwest London, wrote: “I want to ask those who support the anti-war movement their motives and reasons behind such support. You may feel that America is trying to blind you from seeing the truth about their real reasons for an invasion. “I must argue that in fact, you are still blind to the bigger truths in Iraq. Saddam has murdered more than 1m Iraqis over the past 30 years. Are you willing to allow him to kill another million?” She also attacked the West for arming Saddam in the first place as well as for ignoring his use of chemical weapons against his own people. She added: “Of course it would be ideal if an invasion could be undertaken, not by the Americans, but by, say, the Nelson Mandela International Peace Force. That’s not on offer. The Iraqi people cannot wait until such a force materialises. “That such a force does not exist, cannot exist, in today’s world is a failing of the very people who do not want America to invade Iraq, yet are willing to let thousands of Iraqis die in order to gain the higher moral ground.” Blair had a copy of her e-mail distributed to all delegates after his speech, He told them: “Read it all. It is the reason why I do not shrink from action against Saddam if it proves necessary.” Kashi was born in Kuwait after her family, who are Shi’ite Muslims — the minority Sunni Muslims run Iraq — fled Saddam’s persecution. When he persuaded Kuwait to return male refugees to Baghdad, they were shot. She came to Britain at the age of three months. Fresh from a lecture at Cambridge’s Newnham College yesterday, she said: “I was being asked to join a bus to go to the march, but I felt my friends didn’t understand the situation in Iraq . . . I dream of being able to go to a free Iraq one day.” Her father Hesham, 51, who runs a building company, said: “I am very proud of her. She sent me a copy of the e-mail to check some facts and I wanted more people to read it.”