[Peace-discuss] Letter to N-G

[Morton K. Brussel]

I've sent this in to the N-G today. It is not enough. --mkb

One doesn’t know whether mis- and dis-information presented in recent  
letters to the editor of the News-Gazette derive from ignorance or  
willful intention.

L. Daniel Metz has written that broad disagreement exists about  
global warming in the scientific community, in stark contradiction to  
the government report that he cites for evidence. (Those confused  
might consult  http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/ 
Fingerprints.html.) The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on  
Climate Change in 2001 stated, "There is new and stronger evidence  
that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is  
attributable to human activities." Since, the evidenced has become  
much stronger.  Metz is way off base.

Ken Goodchild writes about “the global war initiated by Islamic  
extremists.”, citing 9/11 and other violent acts against U.S.  
properties and interests, but conveniently fails to recognize the  
horrendous record of his own government and its clients in this  
regard.  One can still remember the havoc and terror inflicted in  
Vietnam, our support of terrorism and repression in Central America  
(Guatemala and Nicaragua) and South America (Argentina, Chile…), in  
Africa (Angola,  Congo, South Africa), in Suharto’s Indonesia, in our  
client sheikdoms Saudi Arabia and Jordan, our support for Saddam  
Hussein when he attacked Iran, our support for the Pinochet regime in  
Chile, our interventions in Cuba, Grenada, Panama, Yugoslavia—the  
list goes on—and now our support of the atrocious actions of Israel  
in Lebanon and Palestine and our mutilation of Iraq and its people.  
Bin Laden has said he was motivated to attack the Twin Towers by the  
sight of Beirut burning in 1982, “and the whole world saw and heard  
but it didn't respond.”  There has been plenty of provocation, even  
if their acts of retaliation are not to be excused.

How many more will be driven to vengeance by what is transpiring in  
the middle east, where our partner Israel is wreaking murderous  
destruction upon a people. What possibly can arouse Americans to  
demand an end to the war and destruction caused or supported by its  
government? 
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