From: The Pantophobic (trivik@stwing.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 16:03:48 BST
----- Forwarded message from Aniruddha Gupta <ani_g1q@isid.ac.in> -----
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:48:44 +0500 (GMT+0500)
From: Aniruddha Gupta <ani_g1q@isid.ac.in>
Reply-To: Aniruddha Gupta <ani_g1q@isid1.isid.ac.in>
Subject: [Mensa] Silence
To: mensaindia@yahoogroups.com
If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11, please
observe a moment of silence for the 5,000 civilian lives lost in the New
York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania attacks.
While we're at it,let's have 13 minutes of silence for the 130,000 Iraqi
civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take another
moment to remember how Americans celebrated and cheered 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 150,000 Afghans killed by
troupes supported and trained by the CIA. Plus 10 minutes of silence for
300,000 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. The US went to another continent thousands of miles away
and burnt tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants with napalm. 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 US embargoes on Iraq and
Cuba. Or the hundreds of thousands brutally murdered throughout the world
by US-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 Baghdad 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 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, maybe even more! What
about the 560,000 Iraqi children (as per current UN data) who have died as
a direct cause of the US supported sanctions against Iraq? Are these the
children of a lesser God? What about a new generation of nearly one
million Iraqi children who are currently having their lives being ruined
by improper nutrition, lack of medicine and inferior education because of
US supported sanctions.
Now, let's talk about terrorism, shall we?
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