Subject: Re: Shock'N'Awe
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:58:18 +0000


John Foster wrote:

>Canada is not at war. It is only Australia, the US and
>Britian. Iraqi people are simply trying to defend
>themselves.

>From the UPI International Desk
Published 3/21/2003 2:46 PM

"A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese 
human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of 
uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth 
Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told 
UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he 
interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing 
didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their 
freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a 
monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. 
He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing 
made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, 
feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from 
foot to head."

Anthony Crifasi

>Actually this is not a war; it is only a battle.
>One battle I suppose of many more to come. I personally do
>not see how 1/4 million odds and sods (many of whom are
>teenagers) can conquer a entire country. I think the US and
>Britian are going to suffer some very heavy casualties, and
>be completely demoralized. Remember the Soviets who lost
>over 16,000 soldiers trying to simply take Afghanistan. They
>failed miserably.
>
>I was also wondering why the US is using weapons of mass
>destruction itself in the form of B52's and tomahawk cruise
>missiles. Is this kind of bombing which so far has killed 77
>civilians also terror and destruction of a mass scale. Is
>not bombing of an orphanage against the Geneva Convention on
>War?
>
>Shock'N'Awe
>
>I definately agree that there is a high degree of shocking
>mass destruction. Need to show the real face of war....It
>looks very much likely that the Iraqi population with or
>without the Bath Party are violently opposed to the US lead
>invasion. There will be no sweet victory for the US. And
>certainly the may well be a domino effect to follow where
>the US loses it's control as a world hegemonic power;
>especially in the face of the vast majority of nations
>opposed to this battle.
>
>"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the
>public mind."
>                                  - General William
>Westmorland.
>
>
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