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Subject: Re: Better Exchanges.
Date: 23-Aug-99 at 03:46
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:16:09 -0400
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From: Darlene Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Better Exchanges.
At 12:10 AM 8/21/99 -0400, Chris Brady <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>... This is apart from the
>actual physical threats for being such a traitor as to suggest that
>bombing fleeing young humans with aerial fuel explosives (Murder Mile
>north of Kuwait) was morally questionable.
I'm assuming here that Brady is referring to the devastation on the highway
to Basra that occurred in the hours just after the 'cease-fire' of the
so-called Gulf War. I was an undergraduate when this occurred and, despite
the media's quick self-censorship, managed to find enough sources on the
Basra highway massacre to put together a research paper for a history honors
course. My best source, however, came later (long after my professor had
declined to share the paper with my flag-waving fellow students) when my
nineteen-year-old son returned from the Gulf where he had spent seven long
months aboard a Navy ship (part of what he and his shipmates called
'Schwarzkopf's Rubber Ducky' ruse) -- he told me that, toward the end of the
short 'war,' the Navy felt underutilized & even short-changed; his fleet was
already preparing to head for 'home' when they got a last-chance to drop
their stockpile of bombs on the Basra highway (think of it as the end of a
three-month 'commercial' for American arms-dealer). Overkill is a ghastly
understatement for this incident but most Americans did NOT see this on
their evening news or on CNN. For my outspoken-ness prior to, during, and
after the Gulf-experience (mostly in the student lounge and only once in
newspaper-print), I received hate mail, a slap in the face from another
military-mom, feces dumped on my front porch, and, for months, nasty and
abusive phone calls from flag-wavers.
Though we may not all agree, all-the-time, we need this kind of Forum
(H-RadHist) where the Bill of Rights isn't simply a tool manipulated by
merchants-of-destruction and hatemongerers. We should save the rancor for
those who have earned it with their deeds, not merely for their differing
opinions. As our ten-year-old daughter put it during the Clinton
impeachment trial, the sex part is just stupidity when he really needed to
be impeached for what he'd done to the children of Iraq AND in Harlan
County, Kentucky (where we live) for his welfare-reform measure. I plan to
stay a subscriber to H-RadHist but, until I see more focus, I'll be using
the 'delete' key far, far more often than I hit 'reply.'
bye,
darlene
aka: bonafide radical granny, edging ever closer to the PhD
Darlene Wilson
Director, Institutional Planning and Research
Southeast Community College
700 College Road, Cumberland, KY 40823
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