U.S. Bombing Afghanistan, Sudan

[Michael Eisenscher]

In a very brief clip of a Sudanese government official on NPR responding to
the accusation that they were harboring a terrorist chemical warfare
factory, the exasperated spokesperson said that the US just blew up a
pharmecutical manufacturing plant.  Between the two raids 75-100 cruise
missiles were fired off at the cost of $1 million per copy.  After learning
about the real as opposed to proclaimed accuracy of these weapons following
the Gulf War, you can imagine how many civilians vs. "terrorists" were
exterminated to help Bill move his sex organ off page one.

In solidarity,
Michael

At 03:21 PM 8/20/1998 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>We're at war with Afghanistan and Sudan.
>>The U.S. is bombing what it says are
>>terrorist bases, as we speak.
>
>There's nothing like one of these moments to experience the U.S. media at
>is most appalling. Andrea Mitchell (Mrs Alan Greenspan) shares a little
>secret with us - her intelligence sources say that large quantities of
>poison gas precursors were in the bombed camps. Mitchell did at least say
>that the "terrorists" had Stinger missiles left over from when they were
>our friends fighting the Soviets. Joe Johns, after conceding that the
>Pentagon hasn't really disclosed all that much, says that in a private
>off-camera briefing reporters were told that "more terrorists were in the
>camps than might otherwise be the case." Deviation from an average, how
>statistically sophisticated for TV. At least CNBC's bond reporter Kathleen
>Hays says that traders are all asking the "Wag the Dog question."
>
>Doug
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