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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Hardly a surprise.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Why spend money making peace when spending it on
military matters is soooo much more profitable to those that contribute to
politicians and practice carpet bombing lobbying.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>w.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=starbliss@gmail.com
href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 21, 2010 5:40
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] "Humanitarian
Warfare" in Pakistan: Bombs notBread: "...scale of flood disaster barely
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<DIV>The $150 million pledged by the U.S. for flood relief is how much the
U.S. gives to Pakistan PER MONTH for their military. <BR><BR>70% of
which couldn't be traced and may have been misspent: <BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,new york,times,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN><A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/pakistan.usa"
target=_blank>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/pakistan.usa</A></SPAN><BR><BR>or
diverted to weapons systems to counter India:<BR><SPAN><A
href="http://www.cfr.org/publication/16644/uspakistan_military_cooperation.html"
target=_blank>http://www.cfr.org/publication/16644/uspakistan_military_cooperation.html</A></SPAN><BR><BR>Ron
Force<BR>Moscow ID USA<BR>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ted Moffett <<A
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"Humanitarian Warfare" in Pakistan: Bombs not Bread: "...scale of flood
disaster barely comprehensible"<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV class=articleTitle><FONT size=4>"Humanitarian Warfare" in Pakistan: Bombs
not Bread. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=articleSubTitle><FONT size=4>The scale of the disaster caused by
the floods is barely comprehensible</FONT></DIV><BR>
<DIV class=articleAuthorName>by Felicity Arbuthnot</DIV>
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<DIV class=bigArticleText12><A href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/"
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<P>The scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely
comprehensible. As Juan Cole has written, expressing near disbelief :
"The submerged area of the country is as big as the United Kingdom,
fourteen million Pakistanis are affected, two million are homeless." Six
million need immediate relief, according to the UN., and thirty six
thousand are suffering from acute diarrhoeal symptoms, with cholera
already diagnosed. 1,600 are reported dead, with the number certain to
multiply. Famine is a real possibility. </P>
<P>The great Indus river, one of the world's longest, which flows also
through China, India and Kashmir, rising in Tibet and flowing in to the
Arabian Sea, has flooded Sindh and Balochistan provinces, forcing the
evacuation of over ninety percent of the villages. With no place to
hide, people watched their homes washed away, in a monsoon season that
continues through September. Hundreds of villages are inundated or
completely under water, with roads, rail links, thus transportation cut,
as frantic people try to flee to safer ground. It is the worst flooding
in the country's history, with some experts saying the region worst
affected for nearly one hundred years. A far wider area is now
threatened. </P>
<P>When the waters subside, the million-plus people who are directly or
indirectly dependent on the mangroves, will have had their livelihood
affected or erased, as will the fishermen along this great expanse. </P>
<P>Looking at US., news sites, the enormity of this tragedy has evoked
not pity, but almost universal vindictiveness. One with over 19,000
comments are typified by: <BR><BR>-"Pray for more rain"; "Uncle Sam, I
need your help again!!! ..."; <BR>-"Doesn't it just pull at your
heartstrings that Dear Ol' Uncle Sam wants to help out the enemy-";
<BR>-"Ha, God truly works in mysterious ways ... forsaken by their false
prophet"; <BR>-"What did it cost to deploy this missle to kill a measly
12 people? Not good use of our tax dollars! Get a bigger missle,12,000
would be better!"(1) are, sickeningly, a few of the milder ones,
addressed to a River Valley civilization which dates to about 3,300 BC.,
with tools found, used fifteen thousand years ago. </P>
<P>Saturday 14th August, is Pakistan's Independence Day, celebrated
annually since 1947. Flags and flowers, traditionally decorate all,
homes, roofs, vehicles. This year celebrations were muted to sombre,
devastation and death dominated. Prayers for both replaced festivity.
The army cancelled their celebrations and donated the funds allocated
for their day's events to the flood victims. </P>
<P>President Obama in a message for Independence Day, pledged U.S.
support: “... in line with deepening partnership between the two
nations”, praising the Pakistani people " ... as they bravely respond to
widespread and unprecedented flooding." He ended: "I have directed my
Administration to continue to work closely with the Government of
Pakistan and provide assistance in their response to this crisis.” </P>
<P>Pakistan has requested helicopters from this US "partner", close by
in Afghanistan, however : "A senior U.S. military official said transfer
of additional helicopters, which are in short supply in Afghanistan,
would require a political decision in Washington. 'Do they exist in the
region? Yes', he said. 'Are they available? No' ", writes Robert Naiman.
</P>
<P>What was available, on Pakistan's National Day, and the third day of
the holy month of Ramadan, were US drones. A US missile strike on (as
ever) a "militant" compound on the Afghan border, killing thirteen
"rebels" and wounding five others on Saturday, in the village of Eisori,
in North Pakistan, is widely reported. Wait for the bodies of the
militant children, women, teenagers. It is still confusing to know how
these "militants" are recognised from the air, from a computer in the
US, given so many have turned out to be families having a meal, tending
their land, or mince-meated infants. What happened to Courts of Law?
</P>
<P>Unmanned drones, decimating lives since 2004 in the US's "deepening
partnership" country, operated by those who have graduated from computer
games to war games, with real human targets, has to be one of life's
more memorable, bizarre, cowardly, illegal obscenities. Some
"partnership." </P>
<P>The good news or the bad? </P>
<P>A shipload of U.S. Marines and helicopters did arrive to boost relief
efforts in flooded Pakistan on Thursday (12th August.) However, given
the number of US Special Services alleged to have been at sites of
bombings in Pakistan, from schools to communal compounds, the cynic
might wonder whether this is in spirit of co-operation and "partnership"
or an eye to the main chance. </P>
<P>And the US has a bit of form when it comes to Ramadan missiles. In
Ramadan in Iraq, the US., military signed their missiles with: "Have a
nice Ramadan, Saddam." </P>
<P>UN Secretary General, Ban, has finally limped in to Pakistan, saying
not a lot. The Taliban have offered, allegedly, twenty million dollars
in aid if Pakistan rejects US aid (given US form, they could possibly be
on to something - further once in, the US., have a tendency to stay) and
President Obama and his family are swimming in Florida to promote
tourism in BP infested waters. </P>
<P>One commentator reached a US news site, and compared poor Michelle
Obama to Marie Antoinette. A long way from: "Change we can believe in."
</P>
<P>Nearly five hundred years ago, William Shakespeare put it well : "
... perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame; savage, extreme, rude,
cruel, not to trust." </P>
<P>Funny world. <BR></P>
<P><STRONG>Note<BR></STRONG><BR><SPAN>(1) <A
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan#mwpphu-container"
target=_blank>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan#mwpphu-container</A>
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<TD class=bigArticleText vAlign=center><BR><I>Felicity Arbuthnot is a
frequent contributor to Global Research.</I> <A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=Felicity&authorName=Arbuthnot"
rel=nofollow target=_blank><I>Global Research Articles by Felicity
Arbuthnot</I></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV>
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