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Let's put it into perspective.

Post 1

Empty Sky (Remember me fondly.)

While the average brainless American continues to use "we was attacked" as justification for their insane war-mongering and will continue to for centuries to come. Let's have a little perspective.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about 35,615 children died from conditions of starvation on September 11, 2001


RELEVANT STATISTICS


* Victims: 35,615 children (source: FAO)


* Where: poor countries


* Special TV programs: none


* Newspaper articles: none


* Messages from the president: none


* Solidarity acts: none


* Minutes of silence: none


* Victims mournings: none


* Organized forums: none


* Messages from the Pope : none


* Alert level: zero


* Military mobilization: none




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Post 2

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

There's no need to say anything more about that - except that the death toll from starvation *coninues* each day!


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Post 3

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

That is, it *continues* each day...


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Post 4

Empty Sky (Remember me fondly.)

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interests run

Jackson Browne 1986 (Yes 1986, nothing has changed.)

Bush has no compunction about spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ending lives in Afghanistan, Iraq and god-knows where else. Yet reluctantly committs 15 billion to saving lives through the AIDS fight in Africa.

Meanwhile one fifth of the world's population doesn't even have access to clean drinking water.

Saving lives is boring and unromantic, ending lives makes Bush feel like John Wayne.


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Post 5

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

Also, Dubya has no imagination - he can't put himself in the place of people who lack food or clean water!


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Post 6

Jimmy Nugget (I am extremely happy for everybody, especially miss Fiona.)

Quite. And how many of those deaths were caused (ultimately) by the Americans?

Most, I'd think.
smiley - wizard


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Post 7

DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me!

Because capital rules (not)okay!!!smiley - grrsmiley - aliensmile


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