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Re : Re : Guerre en Iraq
Jean-Marc FLAMENT
Friday, 16 May 2003 01:58:40 +0200
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Hello Frank, hello to all!
You write, Frank, that I don't understand the feeling of the citizens of the United States well after September 11 and, because I wish to do an effort really to understand it, I am going to attempt to put me in the shoes of an American while imagining that my child first born has just been murdered by a terrorist.
My first reaction, on-the-spot, will be a desire of vengeance, it is true. Even ten years later, I won't succeed in forgetting this drama, it is also true but my desire of vengeance will certainly have let the position to an objective analysis of the causes of the terrorist act. And probably, I will feel the resentment for the persons in charge of these causes.
Frank, the terrorists who attacked the WTC died in a way as awful that the one that they imposed to their victims! Then, the desire of vengeance doesn't have a target more. Is better to wonder why people arrive to such a point of despair that they prefer to commit suicide while sowing the death rather than to live in peace. When I ask this question, I see mixed two reasons: 1) misery: 1.300.000.000 of human beings live with less than one dollar per day. 25.000 children die of hunger every day. It is a slow, awful death, that provokes unspeakable sufferings because all organs atrophy one after the other, to start with the view. It would be more human to throw these children above in the emptiness since the floor of the WTC that to let them without food. Can you attend it without feeling rage against the symbols of the wealth that the towers of the WTC were? 2) the religious fanaticism. When you don't have money nor right in this terrestrial world, you long logically for another world in which you will find more happiness and justice. The misery of the world is the recruiting field of those that longs for a little power and uses the religion for this. Personally I always mistrust those that speak in the name of God. The Taliban were of those. They didn't come from Afghanistan but a lot of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, country allied of the United States! Certainly not of Iraq because the Baas party is a gone layman who always fought the religious extremisms and who, for this reason, even did the war against Iran of Khomeini with the support of the United States. To link the war in Iraq to the attempts of September 11 is a meaningless. He/it is clear that your government uses the emotion provoked in your population by the attempts of September 11 to do you believe whatever. He/it is of course possible that passed in transit by Iraq of people linked in Al Qaeda as they passed in transit everywhere in Europe and to the United States (where they even learned to pilot some boeing) but certainly not with the support of the Iraqi government that was their natural enemy in the Arabian world. The war in Iraq is now finished officially. Iraq didn't use weapons of massive destruction and your soldiers didn't find some on the Iraqi territory. Are you now able to admit that your government lied you as well as does au remain of the world, while affirming to detain the proofs that Iraq possessed some?
Then, if I can understand the frustration of the American people after September 11, I can also understand the resentment of the Iraqi people that cries over his/her/its deaths and lives in the suffering. If I was the small Ali that lost his/her/its father, his/her/its mother, his/her/its brothers, his/her/its sisters and his/her/its two arms under the American bombs, I would certainly grow with a strong resentment against the persons in charge of of my misfortune and this resentment would be each day réalimenté by the physical and moral suffering that I would feel. Then, I don't believe that the American army wiped out some terrorists. I believe that she/it manufactured some for the future years. Of as much more that the religious fundamentalists in Iraq are going to feel like now a lot stronger after Saddam Hussein's disappearance. The terrorists kill themselves in their actions. If hate was not perpetually réalimentée by the suffering, the feeling of injustice and the religious fundamentalisms, terrorism would die out of himself.
I finish by facts: The thousands of Afghans and Iraqis died or crippled to life. Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein always run. Some American Marines draw on the crowd come to demonstrate against the presence of the "liberators"! The pipe-line that had to cross Afghanistan is in construction way and the Iraqi oil "is controlled" by the United States.
What was the aim of the war, did you say? To your position, I would try to verify to what extent the Bush administration is or is not involved in the attempts of September 11. This question can appear monstrous but history learned us that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was known of the American authorities long before this date. And they let do under the pressure of the arming lobbies to justify before the American opinion the entry in war of the United States. Evidently that the consequences of the attempt of September 11 take advantage of to the lobbies of the weapons and oil, which had financed Bush's campaign.
Cordially
Jean-Marc Flament
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