every bit of money that goes there gets to saddam and the military while
the people suffer, same thing in north korea. the u.n. is as worthless as
tits on a bore hog.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magenta Raine
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 2/18/2003 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: mag raine's report from the bay area

Kat, That's why war is not the answer, because new sons of Saddam and
the
ilk, bin laden, Sharon, the whole lot of them, it's like the games at
Reno
Los Vegas, in the circus-circus hotel, they have a carnival and one game
is
to shoot water at all the targets, but they keep popping up.  So, if we
shoot
Saddam, his son will just take over. I think we need to get humanitarian
aid
in there, under UN auspices, and the poor, hungry people will no longer
be
beholden to Saddam for basic needs, and we begin dialoging with them.

In my family it's considered a good thing to protest ALL violence, I
guess it
runs in my genes, considering how my grandfather was almost shot a dawn
for
passing our socialist flyers in Russia. He talked his guard into
escaping
with him, and that's what they did, hidden under a load of coal going to
the
Austrian border...

Yes, this war with Iraq will costs many billions of dollars that should
be
going to programs here.

Love,
Mag


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