If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of 9/11, please observe a moment of silence for the 5,000 civilians lost in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania attacks.

While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence for the 130,000 Iraqui civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take another moment to also really remember how Americans celebrated and cheered in the streets this butchery.

Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000 Iranians killed by Iraqui soldiers using weapons and money provided by young Saddam Hussein by the United states government before this great American Eagle turned all of its power against Iraq.

Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and the 150,000 Afghans killed by troops supported and trained by the U.S.

Plus 10 minutes of silence for 300,000 Japanese killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atomic bombs dropped by the USA.

We've just kept quiet for one hour. One minute for the Americans killed in NYC, DC and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their victims throughout the world.

If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of silence for all those killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans like to admit. The US went to another continent thousands of miles away and burnt tens of thousands more peasants with napalm.

Or for the massacre in Panama in 1989, where the American troops attacked poor villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead.

Or for the millions of children that have died because of the USA embargo of Iraq and Cuba.

Or for the hundreds of thousands brutally killed throughout the world by US sponsored civil wars and coups d'etat (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador just to name a few).

Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claiming otherwise, someone may remember the USA that attacked Baghdad where 18,000 civilians were killed. Did anyone see it on CNN TV? Was justice ever served? Or was there even any retaliation?

It is hoped Americans finally begin to understand their vulnerability and the attacks and other tragedies that they have caused around the world. The dead in other parts of the world are as much grieved for and mourned as the dead in the New York Towers, maybe even more.

What about the 500,000 Iraqui children (as per current UN data) who have died as DIRECT CAUSE of the US supported sanctions against Iraq? Are all of these children of a lesser God?

What about a new generation of nearly one million Iraqui who are currently having their lives ruined by improper nutrition, lack of medicines, and inferior education in a silent genocide supported by US sanctions, these children are being midgetized and are silently slipping under our radar screen TV-lounge-chair-sofa comfort zones. Is it really true "out of sight, out of mind"? Oh Brother, Oh Sister, where art thou?

NOW, REALLY, LET'S TALK ABOUT TERRORISM, SHALL WE?

from Kawwa

Amman, Jordan

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