On Dec 1, 2004, at 12:27 PM, Horn Jason wrote: > And do not forget the dirtiest laundry to come, which makes all these > other supposed abuses child's play: the United Nations involvement with > greedily stealing food from the mouth of children. > > jh > Abu Ghraib child's play? Not on my schoolyard, thanks. And starting an entire war for phony reasons certainly has had a devastating impact on the children that some people have suddenly become very concerned about. That oil for food scam is certainly a serious scandal but I think dismissing thousands of dead children (my measure of thousands comes from international human rights and emergency aid organizations) as "collateral damage" is an even greater offense. And not bothering to count them after they have been killed is certainly telling and extremely offensive as well. Barry Crimmins