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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>So, when was your last trip to Iraq? You only know this
because of the material you read or see on TV or Michael Moron. There is more
info out there that isn't so one sided.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>PK</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mghuskey@msn.com href="mailto:mghuskey@msn.com">Melynda Huskey</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 27, 2004 9:48
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Saudi Arabia:
Free and Fair Elections?</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Pat,</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course school supplies are nice, and so are schools. But without
electricity, running water, sewer systems, food, medicine, and safe streets,
all the school supplies television actors can collect will be useless.
Most of the funds designated for re-building infrastructure--including
schools--in Iraq are not being spent, as the hopeless task of trying to
contain violence with more violence sucks up more of our time and
energy. </DIV>
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<DIV>As the occupying force, it's our responsibility to provide for basic
human needs. Instead, we continue to make matters worse. Children
cannot safely leave their houses, or get reliably clean water to drink.
As their nation spirals into chaos, the Iraqis are expressing their rage
and frustration against us, the occupying imperial power which cynically
claims to have "liberated" them. They have turned on each other and
on us, and violence is consuming us. A few pencils and some
notebooks funnelled through U.S. soldiers is not going to purchase the
devotion of Iraqis who have lost children, spouses, neighbors, and
livelihoods to the unrestrained violence of this irresponsible war.
We are building a terrorist machine in Iraq. </DIV>
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<DIV>Good could indeed come out of this horrible situation--God is
immeasurably powerful, and turns our grimmest sins to good. But let's
not forgive ourselves before we've repented. This war is a wicked,
wicked waste of human life, a horrible catastrophe in every possible
way. </DIV>
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<DIV>Melynda Huskey</DIV>
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Kraut</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 27, 2004 9:01
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> vision2020</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Saudi Arabia:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am disappointed by your pessimism which is so
much like all you hear from the US Press. But, for me its like this: Paul
Cisneros of the new show CSI: New York has been on all the talk shows
talking about his project to send school supplies to the kids through the
soldiers and this means that the children are learning a new way of life.
Most importantly they are learning to read so that they don't have to
believe what their leaders tell them they can read it for themselves. The
soldiers are helping these kids go to school and stay there. If you don't
read beyond the major press you don't know this and everything in Iraq is
bad to you...but there is good happening. It won't happen easy or soon...but
it can happen. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PK</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Tbertruss@aol.com
href="mailto:Tbertruss@aol.com">Tbertruss@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=predator75@moscow.com
href="mailto:predator75@moscow.com">predator75@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</A>
; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 27, 2004 8:30
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Saudi
Arabia: Free and Fair Elections?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2
PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>DC:<BR><BR>We have military bases
there, but we are not "occupying" Germany, Japan or Cuba with troops and
tanks in their streets. In South Korea, we have a more active
military presence, actually guarding a border, but this is with the
relatively stable South Korean government's permission.<BR><BR>I am
pointing out that we could be militarily "occupying" Iraq for decades to
prevent all hell from breaking loose (as if with us there now all hell is
not breaking loose!). I doubt that if we leave the security of Iraq
to Iraqis that we will see a democratic system emerge. If we really
withdraw and leave the country to whatever the Iraqis come up with, we
will see a brutal civil war or another brutal dictatorship.<BR><BR>Ted
Moffett</FONT>
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