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List moderator - in light of the content of this mail, I hope my response might be allowed. >Dear Sama, If you put in my name on www.google.com and read my articles on Iraq I think you will find they belie your first paragraph. Your second is beneath response and blittles the work of this list. Unless possible propoganda is pinned every time in this current crisis in attempt to alert to the massive political games going on (and yes, I could be wrong, this is the point of a discussion list, to do just that) there will be plenty more tears for Iraq. With discussion of use of nuclear weapons and their use in first strike not being ruled out, much of it and its people could be vapourised.The stakes are potentially unimaginable. This is no time for name calling. In peace, felicity. > I cannot believe how cowardly and cold hearted you can be. You rubbish and > belittle the suffering of Iraqis and the horrific nature of Saddam's > regime. This is not the first time that you have done this, looking back > you have almost always sought to dismiss the suffering of Iraqis under the > pretence that it is all set up. Do you not realise that the reason you do > not hear Iraqis from inside Iraq saying this is because of the unimaginable > oppression they are under. Yet, why is it that hundreds of people I have > spoken to who have just escaped from Iraq to Iran, Syria or Jordan - all > express the same wish while they still have family back in Iraq? > > This rather begs the question as to where your dollars are coming from? > > Don't you dare ever belittle or belie the suffering of Iraqis with cynical > remarks and baseless comments. > > A tearful Sama > -- > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:48:38 > farbuthnot wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I have an unshakable suspicion that we have just been treated to incubator >>babies, mark 2. A beautiful young Iraqi woman told her story in impeccable >>American english, with star like camera confidence at the end of Ch4 news >>this evening in a spot called 'The Exile'. The usual vileness of Saddam, a >>dwarfed, terrified, enchained nation, Saddam should be got rid of to free >>her people, that was what they wanted etc., from a safe leafy park where the >>nukes, napalm, cluster bombs, 'turkey shoots' (or mere DU) were a far away >>thing. Her uncle (an oil minister) had been a victim of the regime, shot I >>think ' 147 times.' The language had been that odd bellringing stuff all >>through, but that was (no pun intended) the killer fact. A shattered, >>traumatised, terrified family gets a body back and starts counting the >>bullet holes? (that many, it would anyway, presumably, frankly pulp and >>uncountable, one is pretty messy.) >> >>I missed her name, it seemed not to be screened. But interesting to know who >>she is. Wonder if this new multi-million $ Global PR set up has anything to >>do with it? I'd lay money. Watch for babies on bonfires ..... >> >>best, f. >> >>ps anyone know if an oil minister has been allegedly shot till this evening? >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 >> > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Tired of all the SPAM in your inbox? Switch to LYCOS MAIL PLUS > http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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