[Vision2020] The Deceptions of War

[Phil Nisbet]

Pat

Self serving isolationism and the press's adage that 1000 deaths in Africa 
equal one death one Main Street are some of the biggest problems both we and 
the world have today.  Until the rivers ran with bodies, our press refused 
to cover Rwanda.  The 250,000 people slaughtered in East Timor by Islamic 
extremists have never been covered.  The war in Chad or the slaughter in 
Sudan's Darfur Region got hardly a boo.

It amazes me when people who should be calling strongly for action to remove 
genocidal dictators chose to push their personal political agenda in 
preference.

http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs1660

Or

http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/

So 182,000 Kurds died in Saddam's Anfal genocide campaign.  Reading the 
letter of the Iraqi Kurd to Saddam after returning from status as a prisoner 
of war to Coalition forces to find his family liquidated is truly heart 
rending, as touching as the Anne Frank Story.

The Sunni insurgency and the Zarqawi foreign fighters are a tiny part of 
Iraq's population.  If the Whites in South Africa had pulled an insurgency, 
blown up buildings, schools, killed kids and the rest, do you think that 
some who complain here about Iraq would have had the same attitude?  Our 
advent into Iraq and the sacrifices our troops have made ended Sunni Iraqi 
apartheid and are allowing the wheels of justice to turn on people who have 
committed crimes against humanity.

Phil Nisbet





>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The Deceptions of War
>Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:43:00 -0800
>
>I do not live near someone who continues to abuse his family without
>reporting them and I was certainly tired of hearing of the capricious abuse
>in Iraq. The WMD's are in Syria or Libya because some treasoness senator
>went there and told them Bush was coming. On the other hand I don't care if
>they were there I just care that now the people of Iraq have an opportunity
>for a 'rule of law' justice. And I don't have to know about all the abuse 
>to
>children and women that Saddam and his two sons were perpetrating with no
>fear. The loss of any life is a sadness but there is a righteousness in the
>deaths of our soldiers to bring hope. I think it is a very sad commentary 
>on
>our press that the pentagon has to pay to get positive reports about the
>growth and good changes in Iraq. Where are those positive reports that I
>hear from returning troops and Lieberman?? We have a lazy press.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----

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