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[mkg1211]

A minute of silence For Everyone ?
If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11,
please
observe a moment of silence for the 5,000 civilian liveslost in the New
York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania attacks.
While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence for the130,000
Iraqi
civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take another
moment
to remember how Americans celebrated andcheered in the streets.
Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000 Iranians killed by
Iraqi
soldiers using weapons and money provided to young Saddam Hussein by
the
American government before the great eagle turned all its power against
Iraq.
Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and 150,000 Afghan
civilians
killed by troops supported and trained by the CIA.
Plus 10 minutes of silence for 100,000 Japanese killed in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki by the Atomic bombs dropped by the USA.
We've just kept quiet for one hour : one minute for the Americans
killed in
NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their victims throughout the
world.
If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of silence for all
those
killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans like to admit.
Or for the massacre in Panama in 1989, where American troops attacked
poor
villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead.
Or for the millions of children who have died because of the USA
embargoes
on Iraq and Cuba.
Or the hundreds of thousands brutally murdered throughout the world by
USA-sponsored civil wars and coups d'etat (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay,
Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador to name a few).
Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims otherwise, someone
may
remember the USA attack on Bagdad where 18,000 civilians were killed.
Did
someone see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or was there even any
retaliation?
We hope that Americans finally begin to understand their vulnerability
and
the cowardly attacks and other tragedies that they have caused around
the
world.
The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of the Towers, even
more!
Now, let's talk about terrorism, shall we?
"Shame on our world from the curse of history that equaled between the
oppressed and the oppressor, between good and evil, and between the
righteous and the offender. And if our world cannot respect its values
then
history will not respect them, then today's decision makers will be
added
to the list of enemies of humanity from Hulagu to Hitler and Himmler."
(Dr.Anis Sayeg Beirut 16/4/1996 ).

Reported
love ,peace
MKG

[Diana]

[mkg1211]

ohh i don't like to have any misunderstanding
but
i don't think japanese went to US and fought it

then all Americans who were killed were SOLIDERS
But in Hiroshima terroristic attack
THEY WERE POOR CIVILIAN