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I just got this via email, it was not credited, (maybe some one here authored?) but I think it speaks of the truth. Pass it along if you agree....
If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?
President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and
implied that things are improving in that country.
What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The
population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics
would have to be multiplied by that number.
Thus, violence killed 300 Iraqis last week, the equivalent proportionately
of 3,300 Americans. What if 3,300 Americans had died in car bombings,
grenade and rocket attacks, machine gun spray, and aerial bombardment in the
last week? That is a number greater than the deaths on September 11, and if
America were Iraq, it would be an ongoing, weekly or monthly toll.
And what if those deaths occurred all over the country, including in the
capital of Washington, DC, but mainly above the Mason Dixon line, in Boston,
Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco?
What if the grounds of the White House and the government buildings near the
Mall were constantly taking mortar fire? What if almost nobody in the State
Department at Foggy Bottom, the White House, or the Pentagon dared venture
out of their buildings, and considered it dangerous to go over to Crystal
City or Alexandria?
What if all the reporters for all the major television and print media were
trapped in five-star hotels in Washington, DC and New York, unable to move
more than a few blocks safely, and dependent on stringers to know what was
happening in Oklahoma City and St. Louis? What if the only time they
ventured into the Midwest was if they could be embedded in Army or National
Guard units?
There are estimated to be some 25,000 guerrillas in Iraq engaged in
concerted acts of violence. What if there were private armies totaling
275,000 men, armed with machine guns, assault rifles (legal again!),
rocket-propelled grenades, and mortar launchers, hiding out in dangerous
urban areas of cities all over the country? What if they completely
controlled Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas,
Denver and Omaha, such that local police and Federal troops could not go
into those cities?
What if, during the past year, the Secretary of State (Aqilah Hashemi), the
President (Izzedine Salim), and the Attorney General (Muhammad Baqir
al-Hakim) had all been assassinated?
What if all the cities in the US were wracked by a crime wave, with
thousands of murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and carjackings in every
major city every year?
What if the Air Force routinely (I mean daily or weekly) bombed Billings,
Montana, Flint, Michigan, Watts in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Anacostia in
Washington, DC, and other urban areas, attempting to target "safe houses"of
"criminal gangs", but inevitably killing a lot of children and little old
ladies?
What if, from time to time, the US Army besieged Virginia Beach, killing
hundreds of armed members of the Christian Soldiers? What if entire platoons
of the Christian Soldiers militia holed up in Arlington National Cemetery,
and were bombarded by US Air Force warplanes daily, destroying thousands of
graves and even pulverizing the Vietnam Memorial over on the Mall? What if
the National Council of Churches had to call for a popular march of
thousands of believers to converge on the National Cathedral to stop the US
Army from demolishing it to get at a rogue band of the Timothy McVeigh
Memorial Brigades?
What if there were virtually no commercial air traffic in the country?What
if many roads were highly dangerous, especially Interstate 95 from Richmond
to Washington, DC, and I-95 and I-91 up to Boston? If you got on I-95
anywhere along that over 500-mile stretch, you would risk being carjacked,
kidnapped, or having your car sprayed with machine gun fire.
What if no one had electricity for much more than 10 hours a day, and often
less? What if it went off at unpredictable times, causing factories to grind
to a halt and air conditioning to fail in the middle of the summer in
Houston and Miami? What if the Alaska pipeline were bombed and disabled at
least monthly? What if unemployment hovered around 40%?
What if veterans of militia actions at Ruby Ridge and the Oklahoma City
bombing were brought in to run the government on the theory that you need a
tough guy in these times of crisis?
What if municipal elections were canceled and cliques close to the new
"president" quietly installed in the statehouses as "governors?" What if
several of these governors (especially of Montana and Wyoming) were
assassinated soon after taking office or resigned when their children were
taken hostage by guerrillas?
What if the leader of the European Union maintained that the citizens of the
United States are, under these conditions, refuting pessimism and that
freedom and democracy are just around the corner?
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