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Dear Colleagues, As always I value your constructive replies to my toiling within the belly of the beast. I feel impelled to share my reply to BBC. I hope you will also write to this increasingly debased remnent of a once credible news organization to help arrest its slide into rewrited press releases from the gov. and bus. (the American way of "news"). Since I grow confident that BBC is continuing to imitate that peerless U.S. news source,Fox "news" by: 1) Asking innane questions designed to distract people with IQ's above that of room temperature from serious but potentially meaningful = embarassing questions such as "was the 'war' against Iraq justified?"; and 2) I feel BBC wont print many "off script" replies that don't accept the premise of their question which is phrased to help in erasing the any memory of our giants of integrity and wisdom Blair, Bush, Rumsfeld et al. and their insistance that the "war" (read "slaughter" against Iraq) was necessitated by the WMD problem (apart from the mother of all WMD, comprehensive economic sanctions which of course were taboo to raise at all since they were concoted by the US/UK). 3) Accordingly I share with CASI my humble reply to the idioticly framed BBC question: ================================================== Is BBC kidding or has it lost the remnants of its integrity to dare ask "Was the 'War' Justified"? Guess the WMD lie has been exposed by truth, "the daughter of time". So now let's pretend the US/UK cares about the Iraqis. Please check UNICEF estimates (partly reported in the Lancet) indicating that US/UK sanctions against Iraq under the figleaf of the UN resulted in the deaths of well over 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5! It is grotesque to think that the US/UK slaughter (not war) of 2003 against Iraq is now being justified by the crimes of the chap the U.S. and U.K. supported militarily for so many years in the US/UK's lust for empire at any price. Your obed. servent, etc. T. Nagy, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof., Sch. of Bus. & Pub. Mgt. George Washington U., Washington DC Investigator, Physicans for Global Survival-Canada in Iraq in Oct, 2002, Author, "Secret behind the Sanctions", "The Progressive", 2001. P.s. When will the mighty US/UK war machine permit safe water to stop the slaughter of Iraqi children? Next year? Never? This murder by delay is particularly odious because all the military officers in my classes would infinitely prefer to save the Iraqi kids rather than let them die as a bargaining chip to steal all the oil. After all they have kids of their own... _______________________________________________ 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