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>Nermin wrote: "Those who are with a new war against Iraq, >especially the (Iraqis) outside Iraq, can they imagine that >American smart missiles will destroy our very simple life again, >will kill us again and will destroy our infrastructure again? WHY? >Is there any reasonable cause? Can any body give me one reason?" Why were my uncles taken away from us, just for having a beard? What has happened to them? Why was I deported when my mother had just given birth to me, so that she almost died on the way? Why was my cousin and aunt burnt alive in front of my family for going to the mosque regularly? Why were our houses bombed by Saddam in Basra so many times? Why did Saddam impose sanctions on my family in Iraq since 1989? Why did he drain our only comfort when he has already taken so much? Why were 200,000 people slaughtered in '91 by the Republican Guard? Did you see them scream? Did you see the blood? Did you see how they strapped women to the tanks? (Saddam's Killing Fields) Why were 150,000 of my Kurdish brothers and sisters slain in '88? ...What am I to do? I ask you to please stop killing me, but you only increase the bloodshed. I ask you, please don't take my family's life, but you don't even give me back a grave. Please leave my friends, they have done nothing but to exist, but off they go as randomly as the next. I ask you, please Saddam stop. Please stop this oppression, please we only want to live our simple lives. I have no more tears to give this Earth, and my body is dry of blood. I look down a road of despair crying "Is there none who cares? Is there none who will help?" But while the world does not look, and the idealists give me no hope; more and more continue to be slain, more and more - how do I cope? _____________________________________________________________ Play the Elvis® Scratch & Win for your chance to instantly win $10,000 Cash - a 2003 Harley Davidson® Sportster® - 1 of 25,000 CD's - and more! http://r.lycos.com/r/sagel_mail_scratch_tl/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020801/index.asp?tc=7087 _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk