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NOTE: This following article is the reality that 99% of the world sees about
the Iraq situation and the U.S. role. It's important to understand that
people are motivated for THEIR reasons, not ours. I'm concerned that as much
as 95% of Americans, if not more, have believed the lies in the controlled
media, owned by the medical/military-industrial complex of power elite
oligarchs. Fact is, this war is not over oil. It's about ownership and
control of Earth's resources. I've worked with hydrogen fuel cells and other
water-to-hydrogen technologies since 1974, and I know for a fact that this
proven technology, as well as Bearden's free-energy, 0-point technology,
could provide an ABUNDANCE of cheap, clean energy worldwide, virtually
overnight, if it was not ruthlessly suppressed with inventors bankrupted if
not murdered. I KNOW THIS FROM LONG EXPERIENCE. In true Machiavellian
fashion, the BUSHwhackers are creating and managing ultimate scarcity, WAR,
for ultimate power, money and control of Earth's resources. Pray to God they
are removed from power before these now-exposed criminals do what desperate,
cornered animals do. -Christopher
From: Sandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The View From Baghdad
February 4
Dear Friends, Greetings from Baghdad!
It is very late here and I am sleepy. The hotel will not stop playing the theme
from "The Last of the Mohicans" over and over again and we have had an exhausting
day. Once again I will try to give you some idea of what it is like to be in Iraq
during this time. And once again, as I have little time, this may be somewhat
disorganized. But first I just have to share some very strong impressions.
It becomes clear so quickly here that the Iraqis are not prepared and cannot
prepare for war. They wait for the terror to come as helpless as any people have
ever been. They are totally unprepared. They are severely lacking medically and
only have food to last three months. They have nowhere to go and if Team Bush does
as they have threatened, and Baghdad is "leveled to the ground," they will have
murdered five million helpless people. These people are sitting ducks. The US is
the biggest military might in the world. The Iraqis are a depleted people, stripped
of all economic support and without resources. The word genocide has been raised by
some of the humanitarian workers here and as the days pass I see it also. It is the
murder of a whole people.
Do you remember the old movies of Christians being thrown out into the coliseum to
be killed by lions? It seems a little like that from the view from here.
The insidious nature of the sanctions become more and more apparent as we go deeper
into the society and see the lives of everyday people. Every person in Baghdad
receives rationed food. Iraqi cannot supply its own people under the sanctions. The
UN oversees the "Food for Oil" program and people receive rations papers based on
the number of persons in a family. At one time the Kurds in the north grew wheat
which was sold throughout Iraq. But with the sanctions they can no longer sell
directly in Iraq. Without a market they have stopped growing the wheat. An ancient
agricultural tradition dies as the fields grow dusty. And a culture begins to wane.
People are beginning to come to us for medicine. A waiter needs cough syrup for his
little boy. A woman is waiting for us at the hotel for vitamins for her children.
Someone's uncle has pneumonia and needs antibiotics. The waiter has tears streaming
down his cheeks and you can see it is humiliating for him to ask.
Today we saw a part of the food distribution, visited an orphanage and walked in a
very poor neighborhood where we were mobbed by children.
Yesterday was a very difficult day as we went to a bomb shelter which was hit in
February, 1991. It was filled with over a thousand people, mostly women and
children. 480 died. The shelter was a very large concrete structure built into the
ground. The walls were at least six feet thick made of concrete and rebar. The
shelter was two stories deep into the ground. We were told that the people came
there from the surrounding neighborhood to feel safe. They made their beds on the
floor and slept during the bombing of Baghdad. At 4:30 in the morning a rocket
sliced open the roof of the shelter and exploded. A few minutes later another
rocket bore in through the hole made by the first and went through to the second
level. From the survivors we hear that there was horror and chaos. People in the
immediate area were incinerated on the spot. As the inferno grew the temperature
was estimated to reach 450 degrees. All along the floor of the shelter you can see
the marks of incinerated bodies. You can see the shape of the person and sometimes
even the features of the face. I will tell you the hardest thing was to see a
mother and her child, a black blotchy outline and smears of blood, etched into the
floor. I just could not imagine it. There are photos of the victims on the walls
and you cannot help but look at the outlines etched on the walls and floor and the
photos and wonder, "was that her?"
And I wonder exactly who shot that rocket. Does he or she know the horrible result?
What officer gave the command? Who authorized this?
Another thing that is becoming clear is the resignation of the people here in
Baghdad. They seem to believe that it is inevitable they will be bombed; that war
is coming and they will be destroyed. I have come to recognize this kind of sigh
when they speak about the coming onslaught. A little shudder. It is difficult for
them to talk about the future. Or perhaps it might be better to say "a future".
I have never spent time with people anywhere without hearing about plans for the
future. "This child is planning to go to the university" or "this summer we hope to
take a vacation". Or "Tomorrow I will see my friend" or whatever. People in Iraq do
not speak about the future. At first I just could not figure it out, what was
lacking in conversations. There was a missing element. It was the future. They do
not know if they will have a future.
When they speak of this inevitable war they just hope that somehow, they and their
families might survive. They know that within a few weeks they will lose friends;
perhaps family. You can see that parents are overly protective of their children.
There is this desperation. And you can see that they want to believe that we can
somehow help them. "You are Americans, perhaps you can speak to the president and
explain that we are no threat".
Today we went to a restaurant high about the city. As we were looking out at the
city a young man approached two of us. He wanted to know why Americans wanted to
bomb Iraqi people. We tried to explain the oil thing and he kept on asking, with a
genuine innocence, "Why?". We could tell that he really thought we knew something
and could explain it to him. It just did not make sense to him and he really wanted
to understand.
It's gotten out that there are these American women in town who are working for
Peace. Everywhere we go we get a thumbs up. We flash the peace sign and they flash
it back. Sometimes we are treated almost like celebrities, with people coming up in
the streets and thanking us. Men in suits, women in chadors, young men and women in
jeans with hip haircuts, they all take a moment to thank us. They tell us they know
it is not the American people who want to bomb them. They are completely lacking in
hostility. When we say we are from the United States at first there is this
surprise and then, immediately a smile.
Last night three of us also met with this totally wonderful group of 43 Spanish
actors, dancers and singers. They plan to take over their embassy here. They embody
word "vivacious" completely. After we had talked a while and described our work
here and in the US, one of the reporters with them began to ask us about the
American people. Why were they allowing this to happen. How could they tolerate
this action by our President? Don't Americans read? How is it possible that
Americans would allow their government to commit this horrible atrocity and not
take action? Whoa, these were such hard things to describe. And we never did
completely satisfy their questions. Maybe we don't fully understand it ourselves.
There are many Europeans here. Members of the European Parliament are here. They
are all outraged and radical. They speak of the American "Bully" and in one press
conference yesterday the US was described as "arrogant" and "full of itself". It's
kinda the way I see it. It's embarrassing when you see the common view Europeans
have of people in America.
We are moving about the city a lot and seeing many things. Orphanages, hospitals,
etc., and meeting with officials of various programs. There has not been time for
small quiet talks with Iraqi people. We are moving fast.
A quick note to Rick Abraham. I am with your friend Diane Wilson and just love her!
For the rest of you Diane is a fourth generation fisherman from the Texas Gulf
coast. She has spent the last fifteen years fighting environmental pollution. She
has tied in the environmental issues to this war very nicely. Tonight we were
talking about the reality that if we had developed or were in the process of
developing alternative energy, there would be no Iraqi war. Without the need and
greed for oil, we would not be bearing down on these people to take control of
their oil.
Thursday we go to Babylon!! We will spend the day with a family and see their
buffalo farm. Doctors without Borders are here and tomorrow morning we will meet
with them.
Every night here as I go to sleep I cannot help but think of faces of children I
have seen that day. I think of them being put to bed by their parents and how it
will be if the bombing starts. It is beyond the imagination that these little
children are seen as so expendable, "acceptable collateral damage." What kind of
monster finds that acceptable. All for oil.
And I cannot help but think of that one young man who looked at me so direct and
asked with such urgency, "Please help us."
Good night all, and Peace,
Sandi
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