Here's a gut wrenching view that's different from all the conservative items posted recently:
How the Coming War Stacks Up Blood, Stats and Tears http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0306/harkavy.php >From this week's Village Voice, with an accompanying article about the effects of the war: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0306/solomon.php Both of these articles disprove the Canadian columnist's contention in an item recently posted to the list that people in the U.S. are unconcerned about the effects of the war. See, being a columnist, he really didn't look for anything that ran counter to the point he was trying to prove. And, coming from the Village Voice, of course both of the articles above have a left-wing bias. One stat listed explains one question I've had about the plan to bomb Iraq. If Bush and cronies are so certain there are chemical and biological weapons in Iraq, isn't the bombing going to release some of that from their containers? Bushies are certain huge stockpiles exist and yet they supposedly don't know where any of it is located so it's not as though bombs could be "programmed" to avoid those stockpiles (assuming bombs can be programmed to always accurately hit a particular target, and experience has shown that's not possible). So, when thousands of people die from having all of that existing chemical and biological substance released into the air, is the U.S. responsible because U.S. bombs released it all? I say yes. Being untrusting of the official word our government sometimes gives us, I imagine that if such substances are released, that the U.S. government will claim that Iraqis somehow did it, even though they'll probably all be dead or in bomb shelters, if there are such protected areas there. We're being set up already to believe that it will be entirely and solely the Iraqis actions if chemical or biological weapons are released. I don't buy it. Anyway, among the chilling collection of stats is this one: "Number of U.S. Army soldiers ready to decontaminate corpses and send them back home for burial: 700" Great, looks like the U.S. has got it covered. I think I'm going to throw up now. Debra Shea
