Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 10:38
AM
Subject: Who are the ignorant
dupes?
Feb. 15,2003
The Editor,
The Globe & Mail.
Dear Editor:
In her column :{"Saddam's willing dupes" Feb. 15}, Margaret Wente
makes outrageous charges, calling Canadian people of peace in Iraq dupes,
ignorant and idiots and Mr. Chretien a hypocrite and a member of the axis
of weasels. If there is ignorance, it is on Ms. Wente's part. The people who are
marchimg against the war in Iraq are people who care for humanity and the lives
of thousands of innocent men women and children, who will be massacred in a
war to satisfy the whims of Mr. Bush and, evidently, Ms. Wente.
Her statement that children are dying in Iraq's hospitals, because of
Saddam's denying them the medical care they need, is false. This falsehood
has been confirmed by UNICEF and UN humanitarian coordinators, Messrs Dennis
Halliday and Hans Von-Sponick. The children in Iraq are dying because of the
destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq and the depeted uranium inflicted on
Iraqis in 1991, and the resulting cancer and congenital deformities,
followed by the starvation and disease caused by the economic sanctions for 12
years.
It is time that our politicians, columnists and editorialists pay
some heed to the human suffering of the innocent people of Iraq.
Yours sincerely
Ismail Zayid,MD.