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In 1998, I spent an afternoon with Abu Ziad, an elderly accountant in Baghdad. He recounted how, at 2am on February 13, 1991, two bombs had hit the Amiryia bomb shelter near his home. The first pierced the roof, slicing into the central heating tank and sending gallons of boiling water pouring over the women and children below. The second bomb, 15 minutes later, exploded with such force that he never had the chance to identify the bodies of his wife and four of their five children: Zena,14, Fuad, 12, Lena, seven and Sadaad, six. He remembers standing outside the shelter in the early morning and noticing the ankles of dead women and children marked by the red hot mattress springs they had fought to climb over to get out of the shelter before the second bomb dropped.
The Abu Ziads of the second Gulf war will be seen on al-Jazeera TV giving their heartbreaking testimony to a new generation of disaffected and dispossessed young Muslim men from Palestine, Indonesia, the Middle East and Africa. And we can all hear the death chant of a hundred suicide bombers: Allahu Akbar. It's a high price to pay for another four years in the White House.
I'm watching Powell present his evidence. I don't exactly trust the evidence, although I do think it proves that Iraq is up to some mischief. It's possible that some of this is false, almost like the false reports that got us into Gulf War I (the troops about to invade Saudi Arabia, the babies in the incubators. . .).
This evidence will totally silence the anti-war movement. The Right will rise up and call all those who oppose this war, such as myself, traitors and "objectively pro-Saddam" and point to Powell's evidence. The Right in this nation will go totally shrill over the international community which I believe will remain somewhat unconvinced because people have lied before.
Saddam is finished.
Unfortunatly, he's going to fight to the death. That is what I'm afraid of.
May God have mercy on us all.
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