[lit-ideas] Re: the bombing blues
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:44:57 -0400
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> From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/9/2005 4:10:42 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: the bombing blues
>
> For those who haven't seen it.
>
A.A. This is very true. Not to mention living in a war torn country
without basic services, where kidnapping for ransom is a thriving
commercial enterprise. The big hearted Americans care so much about
other's suffering that they send them their war and are happy about it
until it comes back and bites them in the butt. No surprise that the
religious red states are the most content to have others do the suffering
for them, as pointless and misdirected as it was. Richard Clark said that
people voted for Bush based on security when Bush didn't lift a finger to
prevent 9/11 and even fueled al Qaeda to grow stronger and more diffuse.
Stupid Americans deserve stupid Bush.
Andy Amago
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>
> William Rivers Pitt writes on Truthout (www.truthout.com)
>
> > I am a little wiser nowadays, and perhaps a little more callous
> > because of that wisdom. My first response was horror, and my second
> > was a sense that the British people have the strength to endure
> > this. My third response was to marvel at the news coverage. Four
> > bombings, more than thirty dead, hundreds more wounded? In London,
> > it is a terrifying, enraging, appalling act of despicable violence
> > that must be immediately avenged.
> >
> > In Iraq, they call events like this "Tuesday."
> >
> > Tens of thousands of people have been killed and wounded in Iraq by
> > way of deadly bombings that have been taking place every single
> > day. These Iraqi people are no different from the Londoners who
> > perished today. Their skin is darker perhaps, and they pray to a
> > different God, but they have families and children and dreams and
> > they die just as horribly as their British counterparts. Yet they
> > earn perhaps a few sentences on the back page of the paper, and
> > virtually no comment from the members of the international
> > community which ginned up the invasion of Iraq in the first place.
>
> John McCreery
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