A minute of Silence. 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 Russians and 150,000 Afghans killed by troups 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
embargoesn 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!
Now, let’s talk about terrorism, shall we?
Posted on Thu, 15 November 2001 at 09:54
