You are making new enemies when what you need are friends. Several friends of mine will soon go to trial in New York because they nonviolently protested at a public facility that encourages schoolchildren to simulate the act of aiming to kill and then killing. Docked in New York City, the Intrepid Air and Sea War Museum attracts scores of teachers and children every day. Our delegations travel to Iraq intent upon learning as much as we can about the consequences of US policy toward Iraq. Upon return, we try to hit the ground running, telling anyone who'll listen about what we've seen and heard.
Hospital wards become the battlegrounds of economic warfare.
Children writhe in pain on bloodstained mats, bereft of anesthetics or antibiotics, many of them nearing the end of their lives for want of the simplest medical cures or equipment. And if you don't believe we could do such a thing, check your statistics from last month. And the month before that. The sanctions have continued for nearly 120 months now and the death toll is chillingly persuasive. Nearly ten years of bullying and punitive economic sanctions have not brought the government of Saddam Hussein to its knees.