From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 15:43:02 MST
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:46:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Party of Citizens <citizens@vcn.bc.ca>
Reply-To: loges-de-corbeaux@smartgroups.com
To: conniechungtonight@cnn.com
Cc: loges-de-corbeaux@smartgroups.com, france@un.int, pm@pm.gc.ca
Subject: [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Arthur Miller on War and Peace
Your guest, Arthur Miller asked rhetorically why Bush cannot wait until
the UN inspectors have done their job. Indeed, UN peace keeping forces
have been in some world situations to keep the peace for years, even
decades. If that is how long it takes, why is that a problem to Bush?
If he wages a "war" (really a mass murder given that his military is 1,000
times stronger than Iraq's) the cost in lives will be in the thousands and
perhaps even millions. The cost in material assets destroyed will be into
the billions of dollars. By both criteria, the UN peackeepers in Iraq cost
far, far less.
There is an irrefutable fact here which even Bush and their war
propagandists will not argue against.
AS LONG AS THE UN INSPECTORS/PEACE KEEPERS ARE IN IRAQ, PEACE AND
STABILITY IN THE REGION AND THE WORLD WILL BE MAINTAINED.
It doesn't matter if Iraq has been in "material breech" of this or that.
The UN inspectors will destroy the prohibited weapons. There is another
irrefutable fact. As Madelaine Albright and others have said, there are
some highly unpredictable aspects to a U-S-A invasion, as unpredictable as
peace and stability are predictable by continuing with present procedures
indefinitely. What will happen she asked, if U-S-A is in occupation of
Baghdad, the cultural centre of the Muslim world? At a time when European
cities were in darkness and superstition, Baghdad was a centre for
scholarship and enlightenment. How will the Muslim world react
psychologically to a modern occupation of Baghdad? General Scowcroft even
opined on this being the start of the Apocalpyse. The point is that we
don't know for sure what "war" will bring but we do know for sure what
continuing INDEFINITELY with the present peace process will bring.
The only certain "benefit" of this pseudo-war would be to satisfy the
blood-lust of an alcoholic psychopath who now sits in the Whitehouse
because he won the toss of a coin, in effect, in the last presidential
election.
POC
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