http://www.philly1.com/story5072005.htmlIt's about half way down on the page
RE: "Philadelphia bombed" (7/13/05 article by Donald True Van Deusen - Print Edition Only)
Letter To The Editor
I would like to reply to Donald True Van Deusen's article in which he stated about the invasion of Iraq "that surely thousands of innocents were killed but not deliberately."
According to a report last year in the respected English medical journal The Lancet, 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since President Bush ordered an invasion (see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3962969.stm).
Not many Americans are aware that US planes drop bombs on urban areas from 10,000 feet night after night.
Isn't it surprising how little publicity is given by the regular media to what Hermann Goering said in 1946: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
Our founding fathers never wanted the United State to invade other countries. As Thomas Jefferson said: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
- Philip Hodgson, Chair, Libertarian Party of Philadelphia (
http://www.lpPhilly.org)
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You da man, Phil. I hope your shy self will forgive me for putting this out on the lists.
