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	Silly Thinking with Jim Farris Journal Home Subscribe to this Journal Admin Password Remember Me 1372955 Curiosities served				2003-04-21 3:13 PM Pilger on Boy Who Lost Arms Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) One child, Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the boy who lost his parents and his arms in a missile attack, has been flown to a modern hospital in Kuwait. Publicity has saved him. Tony Blair says he will "do everything he can' to help him. This must be the ultimate insult to the memory of all the children of Iraq who have died violently in Blair's war, and as a result of the embargo that Blair enthusiastically endorsed. The saving of Ali substitutes a media spectacle of charity for our right to knowledge of the extent of the crime committed against the young in our name. Let us now see the pictures of the "truckload of dozens of dismembered women and children' that the Red Cross doctors saw. Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top