Four of my aunts and uncles are doctors in the main Hospitals in both Baghdad and Mosul. From contact with them, I can only imagine what it does to a doctor's heart to try to heal, knowingly in vain, a people who now may have become the first victims of irreparable, long-term geno-contamination in human history: Already at the Conference on Nuclear Arms in Hamburg, Oct. 2003, Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, Prof. of Science at the University of Ryukyus, Okinawa, reported the US had dropped the equivalent of 250,000 times the radioactive nuclear waste dropped on Nagasaki in Iraq. Different from Nagasaki, however, the contamination in Iraq is widespread, dispersed over entire regions of the country, bullets, strewn casings, armor, fragments, shrapnel... all containing radioactive waste.
So what can we do? There HAS to be something. Prayer, of course. But what about active prayer? What about actions we can take to resist? One small act of resistance is to join in the "Not one red cent day" -- a boycott of all purchasing on January 20, 2005 (Bush's inaugural). Do your grocery shopping ahead of time, make sure you've got what you need, but DON'T buy a thing that day. If enough of us do it, perhaps we can register our combined power!
Posted by hessma at December 19, 2004 08:32 AM