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Cibertus
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Date Joined Jul 2001
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| Posted 10/11/2001 6:47 AM (GMT -6) |   | Okay, I’m gonna have to further express my opinions about the terroism v.s. the bombings. So all those of you who are doing the flag waving thing and who are the just war theorists—scroll to the top of this page with your cursor and hit EXIT, or stay and prepare to be offended. (Feel free to disagree but if you ain’t got the stomach for it don’t eat).
So, I come home last night and I hear this banging around outside. I didn’t know why my neighbor was building his garage at 10:00pm  so I went outside to check it out. And they were shooting fireworks. I asked my roomate why they were shooting fireworks for. He said he didn’t know, so I looked at the calendar and all it said was Last Quarter. Then I remember hearing a snipit on the radio about the “big day of bombings” in Afghanistan. And I said, “Do not tell me that we are shooting fireworks because WE are celebrating Afghanistan’s further devastation.
I turned on the TV to see what was going on and there was my buddy Letterman who I watch only by accident. And he’s talking with this military/politics lady about the bombings as though she was talking about her hair do. And do you think I could find any statistics on the number of people that the bombings in Afghanistan killed? Not in our papers. It is important that the enemy remain faceless.
Maybe God made me inside out and upside down but it makes me more sad to hear about the bombings over there than to see the bombings here. So, now is it my turn to be aghast at people who aren’t upset and saddened by what has just occurred?—to be pierced to the heart when we shoot fireworks and wave flags because we caused someone further misery? Are civilians being killed in the bombings on Afghanistan?...Heck yeah. Are there people grieving over loved ones that are missing?...sure. Except they happen to be brown skinned and dark haired and wear a veil or a turban. Except they happen to have survived numerous civil wars in the past number of years. So they most likely have lost two uncles already and a brother in the former wars before their father died in this bombing. And tomorrow their twelve year old brother has a big chance of getting blown up by a leftover bombie when he takes the goat for a walk cause that’s what happened to the 14 year old kid next door.
Here’s what the US sees says and publishes. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/archive/A40051-2001Oct10.html. And here’s what is actually going on. www.mcc.org/afghancrisis/index.html
That’s my rant, now this is my sorrow.
Wars are all around horrible. They leave their impact for years. Laos is still full of “bombies”. Little surprise presents from the USA that Laosian civilians keep opening at random. four year old Kou Ya was playing along the roadside outside Phonsavan with his seven year old sister Sia Ya. He picked up a bomblet and threw it behind his sister. It exploded, killing him instantly. His sister died in hospital two days later. 58 year old Mr. Khammone was cutting bamboo when his knife slipped and struck a bombie, causing it to explode. He was seriously injured and died one day later at Military Hospital 101. Three boys nearby, aged 6, 15, and 16, suffered leg injuries. 15 year old Thao Mee struck a bombie while beginning to dig a fish pond in his family’s rice paddy in Ban Koua, Muong Khoune, Xieng Khouang. The bombie’s explosion “made Thao Mee’s face and his body, his legs and his arms full of shrapnels,” according to the accident report. He was taken to hospital the following day. He stopped breathing and had to be revived. Within three weeks, his right arm had to be amputated. While follow-up medical care was needed, his family ran out of money after selling off all of their chickens and pigs to pay for treatment. The full account is found here www.mcc.org/clusterbomb/report/laos_appendix.html
The same thing is happening in the aftermath of desert storm. As of 1993, estimates were that 1600 civilians had been killed, and over 2,500 injured from unexploded submunitions since the end of the war in Iraq and Kuwait. (Refer to www.mcc.org/clusterbomb/report/chapter1.htm#426A)
Other types of “casualties” still occur as the result of US occupation. In Thailand, the GI’s left in their wake the most horrendous escalation in the business of prostitution I have ever heard of. The stories make me ill. In the country-sides and poor communities of Thailand, pregnant parents sign contracts with brothels from the big cities exchanging money for the unborn baby girl when she becomes 12-15 years old. In 12 years the girl gets shipped to the big city, where she stays at a brothel for 4 months and sees an average of 8-10 customers per night. She is considered a virgin for the first 9 customers and after that the price on her goes down. After 4 months she’s contracted AIDS and is sent home to live the rest of her short life in a little shack away from the family’s house and is treated no better than a dog.
My friends THIS is what retaliation does. This is what war benefits.
IS this what all the fireworks are about and all that darn flag waving.
Sincerely pissed,
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