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Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
- - Franklin. D. Roosevelt
RHINO HERE: On Nov 22, Yale Law School's Information Society Project is putting on a conference on Democracy and Civil Liberties For A New Age free and open to the public. It's dubbed, "Revenge Of The Blog". Check out the details at:
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/blogs_main.htm
MSNBC is running an interactive series on their website entitled, "OIL; The Other Iraq War". Lots of info on why war there & now.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/iraqoil_front.asp?vts=111320020020
The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War issued a report yesterday predicting that an invasion of Iraq could lead to a "human catastrophe" with casualties as high as 250,000 within the first three months. The report is entitled "Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq". The International Physicians organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for what the committee called its "considerable service to mankind by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare". For more info, go to:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1112-02.htm
And below the line, senior vet white house journalist and now columnist for Hearst News Service Helen Thomas let both barrels loose on shrub & company Monday at MIT saying, "It's bombs away for Iraq and on our civil liberties if Bush and his cronies get their way. Dissent is patriotic!"
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By Sarah H. Wright, Black World Today, 11/12/02
Veteran journalist Helen Thomas brought the grit and whir of a White House press conference to Bartos Theater on Monday evening, speaking with passion about the media's role in a democracy whose leaders seem eager for war. Actually, the 82-year-old former United Press International reporter didn't just speak: she surged into her topic, giving everyone present an immediate sense of the grumpy wit and fierce precision that gave her reporting on American presidents Kennedy through Bush II such a competitive and lasting edge.
"I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter," said Thomas, who is now a columnist for Hearst News Service. "Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'" Her short list of answers seems not to vary from war, President Bush, timid office-holders, a muffled press and cowed citizens, pretty much in that order. Angered by what she views as the Bush administration's "bullying drumbeat," Thomas referred early and often to her own hatred of war, quoting from poets and politicians to bear down on President Bush and his colleagues.
Winston Churchill, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Louis Brandeis, George Santayana, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. all made appearances in Thomas' sweeping portrayal of what she sees as the administration's betrayal of both the character and will of the American people and the principles of democracy.
"I have never covered a president who actually wanted to go to war. Bush's policy of pre-emptive war is immoral - such a policy would legitimize Pearl Harbor. It's as if they learned none of the lessons from Vietnam," she said to enthusiastic applause. Thomas ignored the clapping just as she once ignored the camera flashes and shouting matches of the Washington press corps.
"Where is the outrage?" she demanded. "Where is Congress? They're supine! Bush has held only six press conferences, the only forum in our society where a president can be questioned. I'm on the phone to [press secretary] Ari Fleischer every day, asking will he ever hold another one? The international world is wondering what happened to America's great heart and soul."...
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