How did the hand choppers and teenage girl stranglers in the middle east miss these creeps?
Bahrain’s environmentalists staged a vigil yesterday in protest at the mass destruction in Iraq.
The war in Iraq is having an irreversible impact on the country’s people and the environment, said Environmental Friends Society (EFS) president Khawla Al Muhannadi.
Depleted uranium used in American weapons has seeped into the country’s soil, sand and rivers and is causing cancer in children and deformities in newborns, she said.
“War is the first enemy of the environment,” Ms Al Muhannadi told the GDN.
“The use of depleted uranium affects those living and future generations. Many children are being born deformed or are getting cancer because of the depleted uranium.”
Ms Al Muhannadi was among 80 environmentalists, consisting of children and adults, and others who were speaking out against the Iraq war during President George W Bush’s visit to Bahrain and the region.
The group expressed their opinions with a vigil at the EFS premises, Hamad Town.
At the gathering they lit candles to remember victims of the Iraq war, which they identified as children, women, men, civilisation, air, water, soil, fish, birds, palm trees, rivers, values, ecosystems and biodiversity.
Environmentalists also made paintings and wrote messages in Arabic and English expressing their thoughts on the war.
The messages will be copied onto the society’s website at www.eef.org.bh and on international environmental sites.
A cake with Mr Bush’s picture on it with his face crossed out was also cut to symbolise the event.
They must have been out of paper-mache for their puppets. Cake sounds like a weird substitution though.
Let’s also forget that Saddam Hussein twice started massive oil fires, as well as draining the marshes of the Iraqi rivers to take away the hideouts of his opposition back in the 1990s. Gotta hate Bush.
It must suit the Emir’s agenda to let them eat cake. The key there is the word “boidiversity”. No one in the region except a few eggheads gives a fig about biodiversity, that is a Western concept.
Fifty-fifty here: either the entire report is a plant, or a camel-cart spilled a load of camel dung in front of the Emir’s palace, and the foreign press has a few yuks creating a news story about it.
In either case, machts nichts.