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For the first time in history, up to 20 million people will be in the streets on a single day, in a single worldwide manifestation. Never before so many humans have had such a consensus and taken action simultaneously, in such a large scale, on a matter they have at heart.
Tomorrow, Saturday, millions and millions will protest the prospect of an American-led invasion of Iraq. The movement will extend from all the large capital cities in Europe to Asia, to Latin America, to Africa, to even? Antarctica!
Five hundred twenty-eight (528) cities enlisted. Most eyes will be focused on Paris and New York. In the Big Apple, snow and an unsympathetic Republican administration will make it difficult for the organizers. But turnout is expected to be exceptionally high in London with 1,000,0000 heads.
What will these protesters rise against?
1. The projected 250,000 civilian deaths that any war in Iraq will cause. This will be a staggering casualty for a country of the size of California (or France) and of a population of 30 millions. Make the count: 1 out 100 Iraqi will die in this war. Most of them will not even know what the conflict is about for real. At the scale of the United States, that number would be 2.8 million dead! Unacceptable.
2. The estimated 100 to 8,000 U.S service persons (Air Force and infantry, mostly minorities) who will die in the operation. The number will vary as per the ferocity of the urban warfare.
3. The massive destruction of Iraqi infrastructure: water mains, power plants, etc. rendering bleak the future of Iraq as a country, for decades.
4. The refusal of the U.S and British governments to use against Iraq the strategy that defeated the Soviet Union: containment and threat of retaliation.
5. The risk that the United Nations and NATO become irrelevant in a show of un-democratic endeavor.
Fifteen months ago, the world at large overwhelmingly agreed with the invasion of Afghanistan. That was the reaction to an act of war. It was self-defense.
But, when 20 million people in 528 cities, on all seven continents, take the streets, they have a message to tell. This message should be heard. May it be heard?
This is history in the making.
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(OdlerRobert Jeanlouie, Friday, February 14, 2003)
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