Faris al-Asam, director-general for Planning and Monitoring for Baghdad’s Water and Sewage Authority, complains bitterly about the holds. Says Mr. al-Asam, “This is one of the basic reasons why we have deficiency. When you start working on any positive move …you will find difficulties. Hundreds and hundreds of silly questions …you answer them, they give you more questions. It’s like extending the time for infinity, for telling the people-- it’s one way to tell us to forget about it.”
Dr.’s Masri and Nagy won’t forget about it. They are calling for an end to 12 years of sanctions and bombings, and Dr. Nagy would like a truth commission to look into charges of genocide by the U.S. against Iraq. Unfortunately, President Bush is stepping up his belligerent rhetoric and grimly threatening Iraq with massive bombings and civil war. Back at Saddam Pediatric, Dr. Ryadh wonders what people in the United States are thinking when they support this call for increased military attacks against Iraq. “Why? Why? The Iraqi people are human beings, so why do they want to kill the Iraqi people?” asks Dr. Ryadh.
After over a decade of war, and hundreds of thousands of innocent dead, the question is why indeed?
Ramzi Kysia is a Muslim-American peace activist, working with the Education for Peace in Iraq Center http://www.saveageneration.org . He is currently in Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness http://www.vitw.org to help set-up the Iraq Peace Team http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org an effort to place 100 American peaceworkers in Iraq prior to and during any future U.S. attack.
Published on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org
Please also see Prevent Genocide International http://www.preventgenocide.org
Dr.’s Masri and Nagy won’t forget about it. They are calling for an end to 12 years of sanctions and bombings, and Dr. Nagy would like a truth commission to look into charges of genocide by the U.S. against Iraq. Unfortunately, President Bush is stepping up his belligerent rhetoric and grimly threatening Iraq with massive bombings and civil war. Back at Saddam Pediatric, Dr. Ryadh wonders what people in the United States are thinking when they support this call for increased military attacks against Iraq. “Why? Why? The Iraqi people are human beings, so why do they want to kill the Iraqi people?” asks Dr. Ryadh.
After over a decade of war, and hundreds of thousands of innocent dead, the question is why indeed?
Ramzi Kysia is a Muslim-American peace activist, working with the Education for Peace in Iraq Center http://www.saveageneration.org . He is currently in Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness http://www.vitw.org to help set-up the Iraq Peace Team http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org an effort to place 100 American peaceworkers in Iraq prior to and during any future U.S. attack.
Published on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org
Please also see Prevent Genocide International http://www.preventgenocide.org