Arundhati Roy ... now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilization

Below the links to the excellent new article by Arundhati Roy; and a chilling photo of an Iraqi prisoner comforting his small son, with an article entitled 'Civilian deaths 'unavoidable' - how very bizarre, surely civilian casualties are eminently easy to avoid ... by not starting wars perhaps?

* Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates - how many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilization, Arundhati Roy, 2 April 2003 is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,927712,00.html

* Civilian deaths 'unavoidable': Pentagon - A detained Iraqi, hooded with a sandbag, comforts his four-year-old son, Globe and Mail, 1 April 2003 is at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030401.uwarr0401/BNStory/International

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