Message one: I was thinking of an act that spells out what rights children can expect, and ways for the children to enforce them via some local guardian or commissioner figure - for example, the right to a decent education, although how we'd define that I don't know, but you get my drift.
Message two: Army commanders are saying we will see a new type of warfare, and that the last Gulf War was the last of the old-fashioned type of war. As I see it, they are hoping it will be as high-tech and as bloodless as possible - a war against infrastructure, rather than against people. If that is the case - and I accept it's an IF - the outcome should be very good: a new regime for Iraq with minimal (and possibly no) loss of life apart from Saddam's inner circle. If anyone thinks war can be made bloodless, there is a rich fantasy world being lived in. How about the right of Iraqi children not to be the ones experiemented on by the new lies of modern warfare - I dreamed that I saw the bombers flying shotgun in the skies turning into butterflies - not pinball warfare which we can pretend bombing is not killing and technology - which always works so perfectly as we know - can kill only the "right" people - oh, and our good bombs will always fall on infrastructure, not on people - unbelievable and people think Christians have faith in silly things - just fucking unbelievable
