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Re: Re: Guerre en Iraq
John D. GIORGIS
Sunday, 18 May 2003 22:06:36 +0200
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Garda:
I am an American, and I ask that you please do not apologize on behalf of me, you certainly do not speak for me, nor for our country. You may have forgotten that our country is a republic, and as such, we elect those who speak for us. We do not let people claim the power to speak for our country by themselves.
You claim that this war was "cowardly" because the United States made use of its technology to drop bombs from airplanes. Would you have preferred that the United States instead fight this war the way we fought the Second World War, where the United States killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and displaced millions more? Do you think that this would be "better" and "more heroic"? Do you think that it is a *bad* thing for the United States to have used satellite technology to avoid striking innocent civilians? I am very interested in how you would answer these questions.
You also claim that Americans do not know the horrors of war. Thus, I ask you these questions: 1) How many innocent Iraqis died in this war? The Minister of Information for Iraq placed the number at less than 2,000. Do you think that he *under*estimated this number or do you think that he exaggerated?
2) Which option would have caused fewer Iraqis to suffer and die over the next 10 years: Option A) US Liberation of Iraq, as it has occurred. Option B) Letting Saddam Hussein continue to torture and kill the Iraqi people, and in particular, continue to spend Iraqi's oil revenues not on food and medicine for the Iraqi people, but on more elaborate palaces for himself. According to UNICEF, 5,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 died *every month* because Saddam Hussein refused to sell oil to the United Nations in exchange for food and medicine. He would only sell the oil in exchange for more weapons and more palaces. Indeed, if you want to discuss suffering, how about the execution of Iraqi athletes for losing games - not by gunshot, but by placing them in coffins, alive, with nails protruding from every side! Thus, I ask that you please do not lecture me about "not caring." I do not think that someone who cares would continue to let innocent people like the Iraqis continue to suffer at the hands of someone so evil as Saddam Hussein.
You continue by accusing the American people of racism, when in fact the US is a very generous provider of aid overseas. In fact, you specifically mentioned the example of Afghanistan, even though on September 10th 2001 the United States was already the single largest provider of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. I also don't know what purpose you find for your allegations of racism against the American people. Someday, when you ask the American people to participate in a World Parliament, what do you expect them to think of your insulting them as racists? Was such an insult really productive to your goals here?
Sincerely,
John D. Giorgis
American
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