In
addition, more than 1,000,000
North and South Vietnamese
civilians
were killed during the war.
Britannica 2001
Standard Edition
¿How
is it possible that 1,000,000 is the “in
addition” in this sentence, when this number is greater than the
total number of soldiers that died from both sides combined, which is NINE
HUNDRED THOUSAND? . . . bad,
baD, bAD, BAD … it is in the 10 christian commandments which the “west”
claims to hold dear: thou
shall NOT KILL"… this commandment implies as very well put by
a woman in Adelaide during the NO WAR ON IRAQ
demonstration last Sunday 16th of February 2003, “thou shall not collaterally
damage” … in my humble view, the christian principles are only good
for propaganda material in the mouths of the “most powerful country on
EARTH” as its “leaders”
seem to forget that killing is a sin … the other bit that these “leaders”
need to be reminded of is that “it is harder for a rich person to cross
the gates of heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle”
. . .
dead children [enemies of the state]
killed by the Armed Forces of their own country [trained
by and under the watchful eye of the School of the Americas].
El Salvador, late 80’s.
*******
i was
born in a country where politics and political opinions were important and
daily activity ... we were SO DEMOCRATIC that we even elected a Marxist president
by voting ... first time in the world, and now that i know HOW this option
ended i would have to say i don't trust it ... at the age of 12 my world was
shattered and i lived my adolescence and early adulthood in a state of LOW
INTENSITY WAR ...a war even if not intense is a war: thousands disappeared,
were killed and many more were tortured; after the coup d'etat, TUESDAY MORNING
11TH OF SEPTEMBER 1973, promoted also by the christian democrats- the president
of this party was convinced the army was going to ask him to take control
of the government once it was “taken away” from the people and the
people's parties) our country was “run” by a murderer who became
the most obedient puppet of the chicago school of economics and his daddy
milton friedmand ... money became our country's new religion ...
our brains were
fed with sport events and soap operas galore and the official line was that
torture was not practiced in chile and god didn’t like to participate
in politics ... we fell deeply and truly into "cultural blackout"
... to the point that the few of the real chilean intellectuals that survived
this horror believe that ever since our country hasn't produced another "real
brain" ... it is hard to have clever people when the ones that were and
the ones that were going to be were killed or expatriated ... some went mad,
some committed suicide and some fell into a bottle ... we pay an expensive
price for our dream and entrenched democratic ways ...
now,
if a low intensity war can create so much pain and suffering, imagine what
an intense war produces ... i feel sick watching footage of bombings because
i can only see dismembered bodies and excruciating pain on the ground, which
is NOT shown to us, this is why i KNOW it must be of incredible proportions
... i feel sick watching footage of bombings because i believe the EARTH is
sacred and i can't believe the lack of understanding and compassion every
time a bomb the size of a small car is launched against her surface ... it
makes me sick to think that instead of trying an honest path to solve an economic
crisis the "most powerful country" will go for the easy fix ...
Enron collapsed and the war
against Iraq became an OBSESSION ... rather than deal with corrupted board
of directors and “extreme accountancy practices”, it is easier and
cheaper to kill people in the THIRD WORLD ... after all it is third world
and third only, it isn't the first world ... so we really don't count ...
we are not humans ...
the "most
powerful country" in the world did not learn anything from its
11th of september, which was the culmination of its own anticommunist
policies ... propaganda says we are now fighting a battle between "good"
and "evil" ... i ask, who defines whom is good and whom is evil?
That's is the question ! ... in my opinion it shouldn't be answered by the
ONLY country that has dropped atomic bombs against civilian populations, the
country that destroyed another country because it had a president that could
have become a role model and example for the rest of the world ... a country
who has citizens that have never even heard the name of the rest of the countries
in our shared world ... but if all goes according to the “bushes”
plan this is what will be happening ... we surely go two steps forward in
"his-tory" and three backward ... we need female energy around ...
the more i live the more i desire life after death; as an old First Nation
woman from canada said: i am not one to forget and when i die i will kick
ass ! ! !
claudia
raddatz
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