Forgotten children of Lebanon

OK. Thank you Mr. Bush. The missiles performed marvelously. They are needed to fully democratize the region.

If you want to be considered the only democratic country in the Middle East you must behave like this. You should target children in Qana ten years after a similar war crime if you want to remain the only democratic state in the region.

Since their young minds can quickly assimilate information, the best approach for teaching democracy to children is raining bombs on them. This is Rice’s token to Middle Eastern children. For over three years, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Blair have been introducing Iraqi children to democracy in the same way.

If children want to stay safe from the fire of missiles and bombs, they should take shelter in Qana. Children should not worry because it is the safest place in the world. Our children know that our world is progressing with great speed and that is why, ten years later, more sophisticated bombs are raining down on children in their sweet sleep.

Genghis Khan killed by the sword, but we kill innocents with hi-tech bombers and call it collateral damage -– a quaint phrase. This is great progress for modern man, isn’t it?

Ehud Olmert tells Shimon Peres things like: “We target children, women, the elderly, UN staff workers, and trucks carrying food and medicine for children, and then you should just say ‘sorry’ because you have won a Nobel Peace Prize.

“Don’t worry. Bolton acts as our envoy in the UN. He has stood up for us like a lion and nobody can challenge him. Bush used a recess appointment to appoint him to the post when he realized he couldn’t get congressional approval by saying that ‘he is the right man for the right job’ because of this stance.”

Olmert could also remind Peres: “Haven’t you heard that Bolton didn’t heed what Kofi Annan said on Sunday at the UN Security Council meeting?

“Don’t you remember that several days ago in Rome, Rice alone opposed all the calls for a truce, and in St. Petersburg all the leaders of the most powerful democratic states gave us the ‘right’ to pound Lebanon.

“Moreover, we should not worry ourselves about a likely resolution by the Security Council. What happened to resolutions 242 and 338? They are forgotten.”

Don’t ask UNICEF about the children in Lebanon. It seems that it is not UNICEF’s job to attend to the affairs of children in Lebanon and Palestine. They are the children of the Third World. Moreover, they are the children of ‘terrorists’. Anyone whose land is occupied is a terrorist, and therefore their children are born terrorist. This is their fate whether they like it or not. Their fate was already decided by the great-grandfathers of Tony Blair before they set foot in this world of guns, missiles, occupation, misery, and death. Today’s children should not be surprised if Blair opposes the calls for a truce because he’s just following in the footsteps of the British Empire.

MS/HG

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