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To: E. T. who wrote (4305)	2/18/2003 8:54:07 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 15987

First you make the incorrect assumption that tens of thousands will die. Oh really? What do you think happened in the Gulf War (and there US forces did not even attempt to seize Bagdad)??? 35,000 civilians dead. 100,000 soldiers dead. 300,000 soldiers wounded (think bloody arms and legs flying hither and yon). cnn.com You see, when I say thousands, I was actually being optimistic. Or let us look at Afghanistan, where than 3,000 civilians died as a result of the recent operation against the Taliban. That is equal to the number of people who perished in the WTC tragedy. cursor.org It is desirable because the people of Iraq have braved years and years of oppression and genocide and now there is hope for freedom Spoken right out of the mouth of the media. American soldiers selflessly doing a favour to the people of Iraq, by bombing them in thousands to kingdom come (probably with the same depleted uranium shells that caused so many deaths even after the Gulf War), installing a puppet regime to offer their natural resources to US oil corporations, and oh in the process, there is of course freedom of press the Iraqis can look forward to. I am in tears. I, unlike you, do not wish to maintain the status quo. How simplistic to think that I, along with 11 out of 15 members of the UN Security Council, and all those hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated against your president's warmongering this past weekend throughout the world, are doing so because we want to maintain a dictator.