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> Subject: Zinn blasts bombing / Alternative news of attack
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> As a reader service, and because Clinton doesn't bomb foreign countries
> *all* that often, we've decided to immediately send out the MoJo Wire's
> take on today's events. Included in this e-mail:
>
> * Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, calls
> the bombing "just another lie"
>
> * Total Coverage: Where to find voices on the attack other than the big
> networks and papers
>
>
> IRAQ BOMBING "ANOTHER LIE," SAYS HISTORIAN ZINN
>
> [Immediately after President Clinton announced the bombing of Iraq
> today, we called Boston University historian HOWARD ZINN and asked for
> his take. After a few minutes, he e-mailed this forceful accusation:]
>
> President Clinton has just told another lie, this time not about the
> relatively trivial matter of his sexual activities, but about matters of
> life and death. In explaining his decision to bomb Baghdad, he said that
> other nations besides Iraq have weapons of mass destruction, but Iraq
> alone has used them.
>
> He could only say this to a population deprived of history. The United
> States has supplied Turkey, Israel, and Indonesia with such weapons and
> they have used them against civilian populations. But the nation most
> guilty is our own. No nation in the world possesses greater weapons of
> mass destruction than we do, and none has used them more often, or with
> greater loss of civilian life. In Hiroshima hundreds of thousands died,
> in Korea and Vietnam millions died as a result of our use of such weapons.
>
> Our economic sanctions are also weapons of mass destruction, having
> resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children.
> Saddam Hussein may well have weapons of mass destruction, he may indeed
> be inclined to use them, but only the United States is actually using
> them, and at this very moment, people are dying in Iraq as a result.
>
> However evil Saddam Hussein is, whatever potential danger he may
> represent, he is not, as the president said tonight (telling another
> lie) a "clear and present danger" to the peace of the world. We are.
> And, as the president said, if there is a clear and present danger we
> must act against it. It is a time for protest.
>
> We are living in times of madness, when men in suits and ties, and yes,
> a woman secretary of state, can solemnly defend the use, in the present,
> of indiscriminate violence-they do not know what they are
> bombing!-against a tyrant who may use violence, in the future. The
> phrase "clear and present danger" has therefore lost its meaning. The
> phrase "weapons of mass destruction" too has lost its meaning when a
> nation which possesses more such weapons, and has used them more often,
> than any other, uses those words to justify the killing of civilians "to
> send a message." We who are offended by this should send our own message
> to our demented leaders.
>
> Howard Zinn is professor emeritus of history at Boston University, and
> author of _A People's History of the United States_.
>
>
> PLUS:
> TOTAL COVERAGE: IRAQ BOMBING
>
> For breaking news and voices on the bombing of Iraq, other than the ones
> you'll hear blathering away on TV tonight, the MoJo Wire has just
> compiled this list of the best sites to supplement your coverage of the
> attack:
>
> INTERNATIONAL
>
> http://www.iraq.net/
> IraqNet's News Center seems to be the unofficial site for all things
> Iraqi. Most importantly, it has a discussion forum where expatriate
> Iraqis are already discussing the air strikes.
>
> http://www.opinion-pages.org/international.htm
> The "International Op/Ed Pages" offer just that -- a comprehensive list
> of editorials from papers around the globe. Nothing about the bombings
> yet. But this will be the place to check out world opinion tomorrow.
>
> http://www.arabia.com/
> Arabia On-Line's coverage includes breaking stories, though they're
> mostly culled from wire services. It also has an "Arab Forum" you can
> sign into to discuss the air strikes, though you have to register first.
> Hopefully the site will have more regional-based reporting in the next
> few days.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/
> The BBC Online carries information on the strikes from the British point
> of view -- which is very similar to the U.S. point of view, as Britain
> is the other country bombing Iraq along with the U.S.
>
>
> ALTERNATIVE VIEWS
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/
> "NewsCenter," a project of Common Dreams, is the Yahoo of progressive
> news (admittedly a niche). It links to the latest news on the attacks,
> with the spicy headline: "Cruise Missiles Fall on Iraqis as Clinton Wags
> the Dog." The site has a huge list of links to progressive columnists
> (some from the MoJo Wire) -- plenty of them are sure to write about the
> attack.
>
> http://leb.net/IAC/
> The Iraq Action Coalition is an activist group that has long opposed
> economic sanctions against Iraq -- let alone bombings. They're sure to be
> pissed and have something to say.
>
> http://www.iacenter.org/
> The International Action Center home page already lists the locations of
> nationwide protests against the bombing of Iraq.
>
>
> THE MILITARY DETAILS
>
> http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/iraq.htm
> The Federation of American Scientists' "Iraq Crisis" page: It's the
> ultimate site for military wonks who want to dive into the Tom
> Clancyesque details. For starters, the site claims to have the "Orders of
> Battle for Operation Desert Fox."
>
> http://www.defenselink.mil
> The official Web site of the U.S. Department of Defense. Check out the
> Real Audio file of the Defense Department press briefing on the attack.
> It's about a half-hour long-and not all that thrilling.
>
>
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