[Peace-discuss] Better copy, I hope.

[Morton K. Brussel]

Hello all,

I apologize for resending this. what you received earlier was probably 
not well transmitted.
This gives a response to the Bush régime  beyond our borders. It comes 
from ZNet.

ZNet | Terror War

To Say No

by Eduardo  Galeano;  February 06, 2003

[Translated by Francisco González]

The President of our planet announces his next killing campaign in the 
name of God and Democracy . Thus he defames God, and he also defames 
Democracy, which has barely managed to survive despite the 
dictatorships that the United States have been establishing all over 
the world for over a century.

Bush’s Government--which resembles an oil pipeline more than a 
government--needs to seize the world’s second largest oil reserves that 
happen to lie under the soil of Iraq . It also needs to justify its 
huge military spending and display the latest models of its arms 
industry on the battlefield.

And that’s what this is all about. Everything else is an excuse. And 
the excuses for this coming slaughter insult our intelligence. The only 
country that has used nuclear weapons against civilians--the country 
that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki --is trying to 
convince us that Iraq is a danger to humanity. If President Bush loves 
humanity so, and if he truly wants to avert the most dangerous threat 
that humanity is now facing, why doesn’t he bomb himself, instead of 
planning a new extermination campaign on innocent people?

Huge demonstrations will fill the streets of the world February 15. 
Humanity has had enough of being used as an excuse by its own killers; 
and it is also fed up with mourning its dead at the end of every war: 
this time, humanity wants to stop the war that is about to kill its own 
people.

Mort Brussel