Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 1:45:26 AM MST Sun News Letter to the Editor

Article Title: War

Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 3:45:26

Reply to Feb 5 Letter to Editor  --- Title: Peace

It amazes me that people say we do not want war. WE are in a war ever since the first world trade attempt, the 9/11 air bombing, the Oklahoma bombing, the Cole bombing, and many other instances.

The US has been at covert war with Iraq, and has taken the lives of 1.7 million civilians in the past decade of sanctions against medicine and food. This is genocide.

Now if people think that you can deal with Saddam Hussein, who is a monster like Hitler and we just close our eyes, think again!

What if Bush and Hussein are both like Hitler. Both Hitler and Bush court the conservative Christian right, and implicate their acts of aggression in holy war. Both Bush and Hussein find weaker nations that can be enemies of the people. Hitler invoked the spectre of "the Red Menace;" Bush pronounces the spectre of the “Evil Axis.”  The difference is that Iraq was declawed in Gulf War I, in Dessert Fox, and continued bombing since.

He is part of Al Qaeda and has ties with all of the Islamic Jihad people and we are in a Jihad with them.

1. There is no proven link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. 2. There is no proof of massed chemical, nuclear, and bio weapons stockpiled to be used against the U.S.  America is the only country that believes the propaganda. 3. There is no proof that even if there were such weapons, that there is launch capability or intent to use them.

You also must know that Islam is not a peaceful religion and they intend that all the world should be Islam, and will do it by force and treachery, and they believe that the whole world will then be at peace. It is hard to fathom that the Islamics that have experienced the freedoms here, would ever want to be under a religion that mutilates women, stones women, cuts off hands and many other atrocities and just go backwards again!

Islam is a peaceful religion, a part of many nations. Some nations are oppressive. Do you blame Christianity for what the Spaniards did New Mexico? -- Cutting off the feet of Native Americans. There is a long and tragic violence committed in the name religions. Fortunately national USA leaders of most religions are in favor of peace, and are not supporting the Iraq War. See report at www.PeaceAware.com 

Their Koran teaches that they are to rid the world of all Jews and Pagans, meaning everyone that is not Islamic is pagan!

Some people misinterpret the Koran to further their own prejudices. I do not know of any such quote singling out Jews.

Please read the January 2000 Issue of the Readers Digest in which it writes "How They Grow Terrorists." How can mothers want this? WE are fighting for our very survival and freedoms make no mistake!

Please read The War on Freedom” How and Why American was Attacked Sep 11, 2001 by Nafeez Ahmed (2002 CA: Tree of Life Publications).  We are fighting to meet the greed of a $396.1 billion military budget; 6 times any other nation.

Now as to the Israeli problem. That too, could be solved very quickly by all of the Arab countries absorbing their refugees as they have the money and resources to do just that! All other countries have absorbed their own! Israel owns less then one percent of the land mass there in the Middle East but the Islamics want it all and want to run the Jews into the sea!

The Israeli problem has no quick or easy solution. If the USA stopped supplying weapons of mass destruction and money to both sides of Middle East wars, this would help.  As long as each side kills the other, the generations will continue to war.

Wake up folks, our president has many hard problems to deal with.

Wake up folks, our president has many hard problems: Enrongate, accounting and insider trading scandals of Halliburton and Harken, a recession, a military budget eating up education and health budgets, and giving the rich their second tax break. Does anyone on Earth believe in trickle down economics?

Trying to go in and just eliminate Saddam is almost impossible as he has so many doubles! We are in a lot of economic problems as well, but we must all work and pray together for him and our country instead of all the nit picking!

Senior Bush could have captured Saddam in Gulf War I, but why did he stop? To keep military bases in Saudi Arabia.  Militarism is a $trillion dollar industry. The USA has the biggest market share, sells more weapons of mass destruction than any nation.

PHILLIS VALDEZ

Las Cruces

DAVID BOJE

Las Cruces

Boje, D. M. (2003b). Oil Empire Strikes Back: U.S. Postmodern War with Iraq. To appear in Business Research Yearbook.

Boje, D. M. (2002b). Facts and Myths about Iraq War. 

Slide Show War on Iraqi Children. If you prefer not to see photos, go directly to VOICE of the VOICELESS paper.