If evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers
- Rudyard Kipling
WITNESSING & SPREADING THE TRUTH by numbers: ‘hand up not a hand out‘
The world is not what it should be; the right solution to the Iraqi crisis either demands the realism of a soldier or the idealism of a peace activist. Either choice brings danger and sorrow with it: peace means continued repression now, and may well mean a greater war later; war means death and destruction now, and untold unwanted consequences later.
The sane course of action seems to be what west did with the Soviet Union: maintain vigilance, apply pressure, avoid war, and wait for the totalitarians to collapse.
What Iraq people need is to speak to the media through Middle Eastern Havel, to circulate Samizdat magazines and especially means and ways of escaping the regime. Lets smuggle computers, typewriters, photocopy paper and copiers inside Iraq. Place on UN official website addresses of churches, clubs, schools and universities so we can all write millions of letters stating the truth about Saddam. Lets also state in those letters that anyone who will continue to actively support Saddam will be prosecuted by International courts.
Sadam will not be able to survive such grass root campaign politically and with a few prayer he might find himself literally in hell before his next birthday. What we have here, is a failure to communicate....
· A new form of non-militarised politics [OpenDemocracy]
· Misdirected hatred ignores Iraqi suffering and gives comfort to Saddam
· Why march now
· The cult of 'peace journalism' is a tendentious
