[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ALACOUN:9247] Fwd: victims of the war

[Al Kagan]

FYI.  Beware that these photos are hard to view.

>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:56:08 -0500
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>From: Mark Rosenzweig <iskra at earthlink.net>
>Subject: [ALACOUN:9247] Fwd: victims of the war
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>The first casualty of war is truth, the saying goes.
>
>The first truth which is a casualty is the real face of modern 
>war.Never has ity been so sanitized  to keep you from experiencing 
>war as a human disaster, not just for 'enemy' combatants but for 
>anyone within the shadow of its lurching Leviathan.
>
>We are librarians. We cannot be complicit in providingonly  a 
>one-sided picture of a conflict no matter how debased the major 
>media are in making propaganda indistinguishable from news. Does a 
>patron of yours want to see the 'other side' . Do you? Can you look?
>
>We are, it seems to me, somehow obliged to put a human face on the 
>deaths head of war, so that citizens here realize that perhaps they 
>cannnot 'support our troops' without supporting their war, and that 
>perhaps the best and only support would be to demand their return 
>immediately from this insane campaign.
>
>  Has the handiwork of 'our troops' become a mere abstraction  as the 
>disastrous campaign goes 'according to plan'? Unintended 
>consequences, like those to be seen at this URL,are  merely 
>something which is to be expected and certainly not patriotic to 
>dwelll upon. But at least contemplate them for a moment and decide 
>what need be decided in the face of truth.
>
>The government has actively tried to prevent this information 
>network, Al-Jazeera, from being readily available to Americans in 
>part because they show 'atrocities'. They neglect to mention that 
>our troops and their weapons are the instruments of these atrocities 
>which so inflame the Islamic world against  the USA.
>
>To see what we have wrought, what our children have accomplished 
>,are photographs of the civilian victims of the war
>
>http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2003/3/3-22-26.htm
>
>MCR
>--
>Mark C. Rosenzweig
>NYC
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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