spanone
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Thu Jun-12-08 04:51 PM
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six year old children in iraq know nothing but war..... |
Mz Pip
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Thu Jun-12-08 04:54 PM
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No matter what we do next, these kids will be traumatized for a very long time, if not for the rest of their lives. So much for liberation.
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Thu Jun-12-08 04:57 PM
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Thu Jun-12-08 05:02 PM
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3. long term memory, on average, doesn't fully mature until the age of 3 |
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So realistically, children as old as 9 know nothing but war. Children as old as 11 or 12 may remember a time of peace, but the memories are probably few and far between.
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Thu Jun-12-08 05:08 PM
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4. The kid who lives next door to me |
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can't remember when we weren't at war. :(
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Thu Jun-12-08 05:16 PM
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5. Actually, 29-year-old children in Iraq know nothing but war. |
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1979-1988: First Gulf War, Iran-Iraq. West arms both sides.
1990-1991: Gulf crisis, invasion of Kuwait; in response coalition bombs, destroys Iraqi infrastructure, kills unknown number, likely hundreds of thousands; Shiite uprising at end of Second Gulf War suppressed, est. 30,000 killed.
1992-1997: Imposition of no-fly zones by US-UK, UN sanctions regime, UN program to destroy WMD (the latter highly successful).
1997-2003: Bombings of Iraq escalate to daily to weekly after US (falsely) claims failure of sanctions and demands Iraq finally dismantle its now non-existent WMD programs. (1998, Clinton's "Desert Fox" bombings.)
2003: Bush regime launches "preventive" aggressive invasion in violation of UN Charter, US Constitution, and all notions of international law.
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Thu Jun-12-08 05:38 PM
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6. Like the little boy in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" |
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(which should be required reading for all humans), who had only ever known war and death and environmental devastation........
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