[PEN-L:4555] Re: RE: Protest against the Bombing

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Date sent:              Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:47:59 -0500
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From:                   Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:                [PEN-L:4552] RE: Protest against the Bombing
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> Max Sawicky wrote:
> 
> >The fundamental question is whether the lives of many innocent people are
> >under immediate, deadly threat at the hands of the Serbs.
> 
> Sure they are, but so are the lives of many other innocent people all over
> the place - Kurds, at the hands of Turkey for example, where the casualties
> have been far greater. But Turkey, being a NATO member and a loyal stooge
> of the United States, gets a free ride. Africa is a goddamn "humanitarian
> catastrophe," to use the phrase I keep hearing on TV, and the U.S. won't
> even forgive its debts. These rescue missions are very selective, aren't
> they? Clinton doesn't have a strategy, or a foreign policy really; he's
> alienated the Russians seriously, and has no idea what NATO's doing in the
> former Yugoslavia. I don't even think there's any grand imperial design
> behind this.
> 
> Clinton's dropped more bombs than Reagan by now, right?
> 
> Doug
> 

Doug,

Do you have any count of how many innocent people have died that 
can be accredited to the current US administration?  1 million in 
Iraq,  x thousands in Mexico and Latin America, up to now 50,000 
to 100,000 in the Balkans with the number escalating daly,...?

Let's have a contest.  The person who can document the most 
deaths to US foreign policy in the last 8 years gets a ....?  An 
apology for honesty?  Hey, thats a contest.  What should they win?

Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba