Mr laparwa

Hi, sorry to do another cut& paste job, but got this today in my inbox, very interesting...can already see Infoman,NYAhmadi,Just2Much, OhioGuy and the like all falling over themselves to repy! ...but how true this is:

A minute of Silence!

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

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

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

Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and
150,000 Afghans killed by the Taliban troups who were
supported and trained by the CIA.

Plus 10 minutes of silence for 100,000 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 NY, 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.

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

Or for the millions of children who have died because
of the USA embargoes on Iraq and Cuba.

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

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

We hope that Americans finally begin to understand
their vulnerability and the cowardly attacks and other
tragedies that they have caused around the world.

The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of
the Towers.

Now, let's talk about terrorism, shall we?

tristan07

Yes, but if we all sit down and shut up and have these moments of silence for all the unfair deaths in the world since time began, we will be sitting down and shutting up until we die. Which would be so good because than we would have no more unfair deaths because we would all just be sitting in silence. World peace would be upon us at last.

GoodHeartedChic

Great post Mr. Laparwa

Right after the attacks, I was a bit disguisted by the fact that these terrorists came over to the US and got training and used our very own planes and flew them into our buildings and killed our innocent people. I feel bad for the innocent lives lost. Even with Bush declaring war in Afghanistan without proof, I said lets get that 'ole ObL, Inc. I didn't realize, I guess that there were going to be innocent people getting killed there, thought mainly of the Taliban getting killed, and after seeing some of the pictures of the innocent killed there, especially the little kids, that OUR news media doesn't show us, I realized why. Your post sums it what as to why they did what they did. Maybe the US needs to study their past and not repeat it, but unfortunately, its still continueing today, following the same pattern as your post.