In the rathouse 'o interpretation (WAS Re: politics andreligion...)

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I think there's been 500,000 lost to the sanctions too. If we take out
Saddam we might ultimately be saving lives.  A million dead vs. how many
killed in the course of the war? Some bombed and shot, some starved, some
sick from the dirty water, cancer from the  DU, plus all the foreign troops
cancer and gulf war syndrome--I don't know. It could add up to a million in
the end. So maybe it's six of one and half dozen of the other. The only
meaningful difference I can see is the level to which I partake. It's one
thing for Saddam to kill his people. There's not much I can do about that.
But I'm damned if I sit back while my government kills his people.


----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: In the rathouse 'o interpretation (WAS Re: politics
andreligion...)



> Everyone, just about everyone, would like to see a diplomatic/peaceful
> solution. But this next one will be the eighteenth UN Security Council
> Resolution on Iraq in the last 10 or so years. Tony Blair said the other
day
> that Saddam has been responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 Iraqis.
So,
> I don't think we can be certain that fewer Iraqis will be killed or will
> suffer, particularly if he's let be for another ten or twenty years.
Saddam
> needed to be "dealt with" a long time ago. He needs to be dealt with now.
>
> best
>