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By my favorite writer, Paulo Coelho. (from his blog and myspace page)
Please don't be fooled by the title of this bulletin.
I wrote a text with the same title in March 9, 2003, ten days before the invasion of Iraq, and I am posting it again today in my blog. This text was the most widely read text in that week, being reproduced by the main newspapers in the world, from Japan to Brasil, from France to Indonesia. It is also my most widely read text (according to statistics made two months later, close to 500 million people read it).
When I wrote this text, I was not naïve to believe that an article could stop a war. But not even in my worst nightmares I could believe that it would last that long.
This week, the war is entering in its 6th year. There are no clear statistics about the number of deaths, but US Army acknowledge over 4.000 soldiers, and 29.000 wounded. From the Iraqi side, the number is impossible to verify. According to CNN ( March 24, 2008): Meanwhile, estimates of the Iraqi death toll range from about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands, with another 2 million forced to leave the country and 2.5 million people displaced within Iraq, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
As for my non-American myspace friends:
This war created a strong Anti-American uproar, that gets worse every day. People say: "the Americans did this, etc."
THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG. People of good will need to fight against this prejudice. It was not "the Americans", it was Bush and the neocons. I travelled coast-to-coast in US several times, from the period I was a hippie up to now. Americans are great, generous, hard-working, creative, and we cannot allow Bush and Co. to distort and destroy this.
Below, "Thanks Mr. Bush". At the end of the English version, there are links for different languages.
Read the whole text in my blog...
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Please don't be fooled by the title of this bulletin.
I wrote a text with the same title in March 9, 2003, ten days before the invasion of Iraq, and I am posting it again today in my blog. This text was the most widely read text in that week, being reproduced by the main newspapers in the world, from Japan to Brasil, from France to Indonesia. It is also my most widely read text (according to statistics made two months later, close to 500 million people read it).
When I wrote this text, I was not naïve to believe that an article could stop a war. But not even in my worst nightmares I could believe that it would last that long.
This week, the war is entering in its 6th year. There are no clear statistics about the number of deaths, but US Army acknowledge over 4.000 soldiers, and 29.000 wounded. From the Iraqi side, the number is impossible to verify. According to CNN ( March 24, 2008): Meanwhile, estimates of the Iraqi death toll range from about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands, with another 2 million forced to leave the country and 2.5 million people displaced within Iraq, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
As for my non-American myspace friends:
This war created a strong Anti-American uproar, that gets worse every day. People say: "the Americans did this, etc."
THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG. People of good will need to fight against this prejudice. It was not "the Americans", it was Bush and the neocons. I travelled coast-to-coast in US several times, from the period I was a hippie up to now. Americans are great, generous, hard-working, creative, and we cannot allow Bush and Co. to distort and destroy this.
Below, "Thanks Mr. Bush". At the end of the English version, there are links for different languages.
Read the whole text in my blog...
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