Shock And Yawn

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 26 05:58:13 PST 2003


cuito61 at onebox.com wrote:


>Plan could kill millions in 48 hours. Why don't Americans Care?
>
>http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3119
>
>"Are Americans -- politicians, media executives, and ordinary
>citizens -- so numb, or oblivious, or callous to the horrors of war
>that we cannot raise ourselves to be bothered by what would be, if
>it works as planned, one of the greatest massacres, one of the
>greatest war crimes, in the history of the world, committed in our
>name and with our money?" ...

War with Iraq is likely to be horrible, but a world-historical massacre of millions in a matter of hours? Don't people worry about discrediting themselves?

Doug



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