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“The president has repeatedly claimed, ‘We have no quarrel with the Iraqi people.’ In his speech to the nation on Oct. 7, he said, ‘America is a friend of the people of Iraq.’ Try telling that to a friend of mine in Baghdad who walked out of his house following a U.S.bomb attack to find his neighbor’s head rolling down the street; or to a taxi driver I met whose four year old child shook uncontrollably for three days following Clinton s 1998 ‘Monicagate’ bombing diversion. Try telling it to the mother of Omran ibn Jwair, whom I met in the village of Toq al-Ghazzalat after a U.S.missile killed her 13 year old son while he was tending sheep in the field. Try telling it to the hundreds of mothers I have seen crying over their dying babies in Iraqi hospitals, and to the hundreds of thousands of parents who have actually lost their infant children due to the cruel U.S.blockade, euphemistically called ’sanctions.’ Are the Iraqi people supposed to rejoice now that a new war is being forced upon them by their so-called ‘friends?’ It is understandable that people are frightened following the disastrous attacks of September 11. But fear is not a good reason to stop thinking. In fact, when we are in danger is when clear thinking is needed most of all.”
–Jennings, http://www.accuracy.org/bush/