Beyond Greed

"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."                 Demosthenes  posted April 17, 2003 at 9:06 AM MDT Awwww geez ... Library books, letters and priceless documents are set ablaze in final chapter of the sacking of Baghdad [Independent | Argument | Commentators] - "... Then the library of Korans at the Ministry of Religious Endowment was set ablaze. I saw the looters. One of them cursed me when I tried to reclaim a book of Islamic law from a boy of no more than 10. Amid the ashes of Iraqi history, I found a file blowing in the wind outside: pages of handwritten letters between the court of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who started the Arab revolt against the Turks for Lawrence of Arabia, and the Ottoman rulers of Baghdad. And the Americans did nothing. ..."

MailMe Human need, not corporate greed ... without justice, there can be no peace. That's the meme stringing these items together. Recent Mar 27-30, 03 Mar 22-26, 03 Mar 2-21, 03 Jan/Feb, 03 Mar/Dec, 2002 N.B.: As with MozDawg on DAV, blogger.com blew away my published archives; recovery is done, but the links are a mess! Hosted by Hits: Jan - 135 Feb - 172 Mar - 521 Apr -

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