Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Good questions
Some good questions here, particularly:
How come there is not a huge voluntary effort to help and to publicize the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of "missing" Iraqis, to support Iraqi women's battle against fundamentalists, to assist in the recuperation of the marsh Arab wetlands, and to underwrite the struggle of the Kurds, the largest stateless people in the Middle East?and
Why have several large American cities not already announced that they are going to become sister cities with Baghdad and help raise money and awareness?and
Isn't there a single drop of solidarity and compassion left over for the people of Iraq, after three decades of tyranny, war, and sanctions and now an assault from the vilest movement on the face of the planet?Their zeal to excoriate Bush has apparently blinded international and U.S. human rights and feminist organizations, ecological foundations, and committees for minority rights to Iraq's very real need for their help. Or they're hypocrites.
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