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OPINIONS
[ Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004 ]

Letter to the Editor
U.S. should re-evaluate its actions as 'terrorist'

A humanitarian intervention is needed to liberate Iraq from monstrous terrorist attacks. The terrorists are reducing neighborhoods to rubble, leaving streets strewn with corpses, blocking medical assistance, creating conditions of hunger and dehydration, providing the choice of death by bombs or bullets, preventing the Iraqi people from pursuing self-determination, stealing resources, etc. If we are opposed to terrorism, in all its forms, we will find the moral will and humanity to intervene to stop the brutality. The terror is carried out with helicopters, AC130 gun ships, F16 fighter bombers, howitzer cannons, Abrams tanks, incendiary bombs, depleted uranium munitions against unarmed civilians. The terror has killed 100,000 of people in Iraq, according to the Lancet. One force can stop the U.S. terror machine, those responsible for funding it, the people of the U.S. We should be clear -- terrorism is terrorism whoever does it. The U.S. population has been frightened into silence, compliant and inactive in working to stop these crimes. Has the unthinkable become so normalized that we are willing to tolerate these war crimes that impose death on the Iraqi people?

Doug Morris
graduate - language and literacy education
 



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