War is
terrible. Death is the outcome. Combatants and innocents
alike.
War is
to be avoided. Sometimes it can't.
And
Canadian troops never accidentally killed children during WW 2?? Never
accidentally killed civilians?? What were Canadians doing in the Korean
War vis a vis controlling the movements of refugees??
arthur
So one killing
justifies another? The kids who were killed had absolutely nothing
to do with the war. I still find it all rather horrible. The
slaughter of the innocents! If there is such a thing as divine justice,
this is where it fits.
Ed
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Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:59
AM
Subject: RE: [Futurework] Are they
going mad?
And Canadian troops never accidentally killed children during WW
2?? Never accidentally killed civilians?? What were Canadians
doing in the Korean War vis a vis controlling the movements of
refugees??
arthur
Just a short addition to my previous post.
The Americans have now become child killers. Nine a few days ago,
six more recently. If this isn't madness, I don't know what
is. The following from the CBC morning news:
KABUL - Six children were crushed to death during a
U.S. military operation in Afghanistan, a military spokesperson said
Wednesday.
The bodies of the children and two adults were discovered after a
Friday night attack on a compound near Gardez, the capital of the
eastern Paktia province. A wall had collapsed on the victims.
American officials say the compound was used as a weapons
storehouse by an Afghan rebel leader named Mullah Jalani.
U.S. Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty said warplanes and soldiers attacked
the site.
"We try very hard not to kill anyone," said Hilferty, who said the
U.S. regrets any civilian deaths.
It's not known if any U.S. soldiers were injured or killed in the
raid.
It's the second time in a week children have died in an American
raid.
Nine children were killed Saturday in Ghazni province. They were
discovered in a field after a U.S. air attack. American officials have
apologized for the incident, which they say targeted a well-known
Taliban official.
The U.S. military launched on Dec. 2 what it calls the largest
operation since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. Operation
Avalanche involves more than 2,000 troops.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] Are they
going mad?
Perhaps they always were a little mad and are
now becoming more so. Naom Chomsky has a new book
out, "Hegemony or Survival". I saw a short
televised interview with him last night in which he argued
that the US Administration has become so obsessed with power that it has
become a real danger to the world. George Soros says something
similar in an article in the current Atlantic. Madness does seem
to have descended upon us.
Ed
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Sent: Wednesday, December 10,
2003 3:21 AM
Subject: [Futurework] Are they
going mad?
What irony! If there could have been any
"justification" for America invading Iraq, it was because Saddam was
excluding US and UK oil corporations from development contracts in the
rich oilfields of northern Iraq.
What's up with the Bush
team? Are they going mad? Those whom the Gods wish to
destroy .............
I think the Bush team is falling to
pieces. Consider. Two days ago, Powell wanted NATO to help with the
occupation of Iraq. Now the Pentagon comes out with this (below). Of
course, this could seen as an immediate riposte to NATO turning him
down (or, rather, expressing reservations).
No, I think the
members of the Bush team are now staggering about from one decision to
another with little coordination of strategy. They're in a
schizophrenic state. They really don't know what to do in Iraq.
(Besides, why are they thinking about reconstruction contracts when
they should be applying themselves to the prime objective of bringing
about an Iraqi government by July?)
I repeat my guess of a
couple of days ago. I think Powell (and perhaps Condee) will resign
soon. Then the team will really be seen to be falling
apart.
Now that Howard Dean is overwhelmingly the Democratic
front-runner, it's possible that there'll now be a tidal wave of
opinion against Bush. I'm amazed that America has been so supine over
the invasion so far -- considering Vietnam (and soon, being kicked out
of Afghanistan).
Keith Hudson
<<<< PENTAGON BARS THREE NATIONS FROM IRAQ
BIDS
Douglas Jehl
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 The Pentagon has
barred French, German and Russian companies from competing for $18.6
billion in contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, saying it was
acting to protect "the essential security interests of the United
States."
The directive, issued Friday by Paul D. Wolfowitz,
the deputy defense secretary, represents the most substantive
retaliation to date by the Bush administration against American allies
who opposed its decision to go to war in Iraq. from New York Times
-- 10 December 2003 >>>> Keith Hudson,
Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org>
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