Posted by alexandra_k on November 19, 2005, at 15:18:21 [reposted on November 20, 2005, at 10:12:21 | original URL]
In reply to Re: To follow up a bit,,,,, posted by Declan on November 19, 2005, at 13:29:18
Oh...
WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!
I missed you :-)
I have been getting busy on the politics board...
(and other boards too)I have been reading about the war...
About trade sanctions...
About how many children died in Iraq as 'collateral damage' from trade sanctions (couldn't get drinkable water)...
(and it is unlawful to impose trade sanctions to punish the public to try and get saddam to stoppit)
About how many less people died in the trade centre / pentagon bombings
as 'collateral damage' from protesting about trade sanctions that resulted in the deaths of so very many Iraq children...
About how WMD and 'imminant threat' was the lawful justification for the war...
About how Blair and Bush knew there was no 'imminant threat' which seems to leave the war as...
An unlawful act of agression.
About how the oil money etc is being held by the reserve bank in the US for 'safe keeping'
About how 8 million or billion or whatever has 'gone missing'
About the contracts that have been awarded to the very large companies (with white house connections)
About how the laws have been changing in Iraq...
Iraq people have had the right to keep seeds to plant in the next year for 10,000 years now...
Now they aren't allowed to do that anymore. They have to purchase new seeds off the big companies in the US...
Surely we aren't still kidding ourselves...
Its an economic take-over
No way around that...
The US is still in Iraq because they still have work to do in making the country dependent economically on the US.
The big businesses in the US will be making a killing
The profits of the oil and the food and of most things produced in Iraq will go to them...
And what does the average Iraq citizen have to gain?????
Yeah, they wanted Saddam out - because of his terrorising etc...
But only to be replaced with the US military????
Jeepers... Must be hard to know which is worse from the POV of a citizen in Iraq...People 'going missing' to be detained and tortured...
A TV show being screened in Iraq (funded by fox) where prisoners with black eyes and so on 'confess their sins' to the camera.Unbelievable...
Unbelievable...
poster:alexandra_k
thread:580591
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