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Now We Are Killing Children In Four Countries
by James Glaser
For several years now we have been killing innocent children in Iraq and Afghanistan. We haven't limited our killing to children, we have also been killing their innocent mothers and fathers, too. Even President Bush put the number killed at over 30,000 last year, and by now we can add tens of thousands more to his figure. This week David Cloud and Helene Cooper of the New York Times report, "The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday." We supply Israel with billions of dollars worth of equipment each year. This year Israel is killing innocent Lebanese and Palestinian children and their parents with the weapons we gave to them. Rather than trying to say something that might stop these killings, both George Bush and our Congress are solidly behind Israel and her attacks on her neighbors. Photos on the news show little wooden coffins being placed in a mass grave, as the slaughter of innocents is so large, and the risk with the continued Israeli bombings too great for people to stop and have individual funerals. George Bush has given his "OK" for Israel to keep up the attack for a few weeks more. The Muslim world watches as the Jews of Israel, and their Christian backers in the United States continue to kill innocent children in four Muslim countries. I think they have now figured out what is going on. The Middle East is now the front line of a religious war. |
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