منتديات الـــود - A minute of silence For Everyone

>If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11, please
>observe a moment of silence for the 3,000 civilian lives lost in the New
>York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania attacks.
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>While we're at it, let's have 13 minutes of silence for the 130,000 Iraqi
>civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take another moment
>to remember how Americans celebrated and cheered in the streets.
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>Now another 20 minutes of silence for the 200,000 Iranians killed by Iraqi
>soldiers using weapons and money provided to young Saddam Hussein by the
>American government before the great eagle turned all its power against
>Iraq.
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>Another 15 minutes of silence for the Russians and 150,000 Afghans killed
>by troops supported and trained by the CIA.
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>Plus 10 minutes of silence for 100,000 Japanese killed in Hiroshima and
>Nagasaki by the Atomic bombs dropped by the USA.
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>We've just kept quiet for one hour: one minute for the Americans killed in
>NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their victims throughout the
>world.
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>If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of silence for all those
>killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans like to admit.
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>Or for the massacre in Panama in 1989, where American troops attacked poor
>villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead.
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>Or for the millions of children who have died because of the USA embargoes
>on Iraq and Cuba.
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>Or the hundreds of thousands brutally murdered throughout the world by
>USA-sponsored civil wars and coups d'etat (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay,
>Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador to name a few).
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>Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims otherwise, someone may
>remember the USA attack on Baghdad where 18,000 civilians were killed. Did
>someone see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or was there even any
>retaliation?
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>We hope that Americans finally begin to understand their vulnerability and
>the cowardly attacks and other tragedies that they have caused around the
>world.
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>The dead in other places hurt as much as the dead of the Towers, even more!