[Andrés]

You probably have already seen this message, but here it is anyway.

TO SAY NO by Eduardo Galeano

The president of the planet has announced his next crime in the name of God and democracy. This is how he slanders God. He also slanders democracy, which has managed to survive in the world despite the dictatorships that the
United States have been sowing everywhere for over a century.
Bush’s government, that more than a government seems a pipeline, needs to seize the second world reserve of oil, that lies under the soil of Iraq. Also, it needs to justify the enormous amount of money of its military expenses and needs to parade in the battlefield the state of the art models of his arms industry.
This is it. The rest is only excuses. And the excuses for the coming carnage offend the intelligence. The only country that has used nuclear arms against a civilian population, the country that burst the atomic bombs that annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, intends to convince us that Iraq is a danger for humanity. If president Bush loves humankind so much, and if he really wants to avert the most serious threat that humankind is facing, why doesn´t he bomb himself,
instead of planning a new extermination of innocent people?
Humankind is sick and tired of being used as an alibi by its murderers. It is also sick and tired of crying for its dead at the end of each war:
this time it wants to stop the war that is going to kill them.

Now they have fabricated the evidence to provide the excuse they needed, and say that that it would be too costly to remove the troops.

MODERATOR EDIT: Changed the title from "Humankind is sick and tired of being used as an alibi by its murderers." to "Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation."

edit2: Matched subject to the topic drift.

[ April 16, 2003, 16:16: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]