We are entering the tenth anniversary of the war against Afghanistan: it is an important time to ask a series of questions. In that long and tragic
October 7, 2001 the U.S. government, backed by Coalition International terrorism, launched an air strike against Afghanistan. This war continues in the silence and indifference, despite the endless procession of little less than 2,000 coffins of our dead soldiers.
Whether war is now certain, and because all the armies involved to define this, and because the number of soldiers that fight and the lethal weapons that leave no room for the use of euphemisms Italian propaganda that continues to call her "mission peace ".
There is talk of 40,000 dead Afghans (civilians and military, and the mechanism of hatred that was unleashed has nothing to do with peace. How can you call peace and wants peace, if with one hand we say we want to offer aid and liberation and the other up arms and kill?
The war in Afghanistan has been in Italy in the almost 10 years by unanimous consent of all parties - especially when they were in the majority - and all governments.
Review the statements of votes during the recurrent funding of the "mission" reveals - more than platitudes devastating and widespread rhetorical patriotism - unanimity that our Parliament does not know on any topic and problem.
Why is the only war Italian politics all along? Who inspired this patriotic warmonger rejecting Article 11 of the our Constitution?
The list of instruments of death is used as long as that of the so-called "collateral damage" that 10,000 civilians, innocents and the same foreign guerrillas killed by mistake. But the war does not make mistakes, because it is made to kill and nothing else.
We want to break the misinformation, false information and complicity in the war that condemn citizens to misinformation, which direct the public to justify the war in Afghanistan and to consider this war as inevitable and good.
The Iraq war, its horrors and its official conclusion in recent days have confirmed the total uselessness of these 'missions of death'. The torture committed in Abu Ghraib prison and one Guantanamo, the bombing of the city of phosphorus in the infamous Operation Phantom Fury Fallujah have made sure neither peace nor democracy, but have multiplied in Iraq, resentment and revenge.
Why else are now hundreds of soldiers of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom who commit suicide, after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? What haunts the conscience and the memory of these veterans? What they saw and what did they do that can not forget?
since the war in Afghanistan there are more deaths among the soldiers returned home than among those at the front: one another in the suicides of veterans USA.
throughout the twentieth century has seen our nation committed to fighting unnecessary and deadly wars in which Catholics have made a decisive ideological support. Still too much burden on the conscience of Italian Catholics to be excited, prayed and participated in the First World War and the more even the murderer colonial war in Abyssinia. "We had the Empire as the glory of the fatherland! - Don Milani wrote the famous letter to the judges," Obedience is no longer a virtue. " I was 13 years. It seems to me today. I jumped for joy to the Empire. Our master had forgotten to tell us that the Ethiopians were better than us. Which we used to burn their huts in their women and their children, while they had not done anything. That vile
school, consciously or unconsciously do not know, preparing the horrors of three years after ... and after being so grossly misrepresented by my teachers ... would you have felt an obligation not only not moral, but also civic, to demystify it all? "Maybe
know the history of the many massacres committed by military criminal, by industry, by the secret services in our contemporary history will help young people form a political consciousness and a critical sense. Enough to make them immune to the propaganda that just wants to steal consensus and engage in business of death as the war in Afghanistan, in which we are part of a coalition applying systematic torture - as in the prison in Bagram and secret prisons of NATO bases - and summary executions.
So who wanted and wants this war in Afghanistan that is costing us almost 2 million euro per day? Those who decide to spend more than € 600 million a year to keep soldiers in Afghanistan 3300, supported by 750 ground vehicles and 30 vehicles? As we will soon add another 700 soldiers to our quota? How many schools and hospitals could be built? Who are the Italian manufacturers of death and mutilation of selling weapons to make this war? Who are the Italians who are ex-generals at the top of these industries? What pressures and military industries on Parliament to obtain orders weapons and weapon systems? How to profit from these wars Finmeccanica, the Iveco-Fiat Oto Melara, Alenia Aeronautica and the banks that finance them? And how do so many Catholic associations to accept from these industries and gifts and benefits from these banks? Can a country like Italy for alleged economic failures reduces the number of beds in hospitals, freezes salaries, prisoners held in appalling and inhumane conditions, fire teachers, students per class increases to the number of 35, reduces the hours school, calmly accepts that an increasingly large citizens living in poverty and in poverty, engage in weapons and weapon systems dozens billion €? What will our well-being and peace JSF fighter-bombers that cost us 14 billion euro (as rebuild all the 'Abruzzo earthquake)? And the ships FREMO from € 5.7 billion? And the aircraft carrier Cavour - costing nearly 1.5 billion and the pursuit of which we waste an average of about 150,000 € per day - how to help build peace? And how is it possible that Parliament has allocated € 24 billion for defense in the 2010 budget?
person signing this appeal seeks only that in Italy you answer these questions.
meet the prime ministers of the past 10 years, defense ministers and MPs who have all approved the funding for this war.
say with honesty that this war is fought because Afghanistan is a strategic hub for control of energy, for the profit of some Italian industrial groups, for an international economic hegemony, a desire for power that is a neo-colonialism disguised intentions humanitarian and democratic, because they can never say with guns and violence. We do our
the prophetic words of a great Indian woman Arundhati Roy, written in that tragic October 7, 2001: "The bombing of Afghanistan is not revenge for New York and Washington. And 'yet another act of terrorism against the people of the world. Each innocent person that is killed must be addition, not subtracted, the budget of the horrific civilian deaths in New York and Washington. People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People are being killed. Governments are transformed and recomposed as heads of Hydra. They use the flag for the first shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to wrap the mangled corpses of their dead willing. "
Bishop Raffaele Nogaro , Bishop Emeritus of Caserta
P. Alex Zanotelli, P. Dominic Guarino - Comboni Missionaries - Health, Naples
Sister Elizabeth Pompey Sr. Daniel Serafin, Sister Anna Insone -
Comboni Missionaries Torre Annunziata
Giaretta Sister Rita, Sister Silvana Mutti, Sister Maria Coccia, Sr. Lorenza Dal Santo - Community Rut-Ursuline Sisters
Mario P. gunmen, Pierre P. Marks, Father Giorgio Ghezzi - Blessed Sacrament - Caserta
P . Anthony Bonato - Comboni Missionaries - Castel Volturno (Caserta)
Don Giorgio Pisano - Diocesan - Portici (Napoli)
October 7, 2001 the U.S. government, backed by Coalition International terrorism, launched an air strike against Afghanistan. This war continues in the silence and indifference, despite the endless procession of little less than 2,000 coffins of our dead soldiers.
Whether war is now certain, and because all the armies involved to define this, and because the number of soldiers that fight and the lethal weapons that leave no room for the use of euphemisms Italian propaganda that continues to call her "mission peace ".
There is talk of 40,000 dead Afghans (civilians and military, and the mechanism of hatred that was unleashed has nothing to do with peace. How can you call peace and wants peace, if with one hand we say we want to offer aid and liberation and the other up arms and kill?
The war in Afghanistan has been in Italy in the almost 10 years by unanimous consent of all parties - especially when they were in the majority - and all governments.
Review the statements of votes during the recurrent funding of the "mission" reveals - more than platitudes devastating and widespread rhetorical patriotism - unanimity that our Parliament does not know on any topic and problem.
Why is the only war Italian politics all along? Who inspired this patriotic warmonger rejecting Article 11 of the our Constitution?
The list of instruments of death is used as long as that of the so-called "collateral damage" that 10,000 civilians, innocents and the same foreign guerrillas killed by mistake. But the war does not make mistakes, because it is made to kill and nothing else.
We want to break the misinformation, false information and complicity in the war that condemn citizens to misinformation, which direct the public to justify the war in Afghanistan and to consider this war as inevitable and good.
The Iraq war, its horrors and its official conclusion in recent days have confirmed the total uselessness of these 'missions of death'. The torture committed in Abu Ghraib prison and one Guantanamo, the bombing of the city of phosphorus in the infamous Operation Phantom Fury Fallujah have made sure neither peace nor democracy, but have multiplied in Iraq, resentment and revenge.
Why else are now hundreds of soldiers of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom who commit suicide, after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? What haunts the conscience and the memory of these veterans? What they saw and what did they do that can not forget?
since the war in Afghanistan there are more deaths among the soldiers returned home than among those at the front: one another in the suicides of veterans USA.
throughout the twentieth century has seen our nation committed to fighting unnecessary and deadly wars in which Catholics have made a decisive ideological support. Still too much burden on the conscience of Italian Catholics to be excited, prayed and participated in the First World War and the more even the murderer colonial war in Abyssinia. "We had the Empire as the glory of the fatherland! - Don Milani wrote the famous letter to the judges," Obedience is no longer a virtue. " I was 13 years. It seems to me today. I jumped for joy to the Empire. Our master had forgotten to tell us that the Ethiopians were better than us. Which we used to burn their huts in their women and their children, while they had not done anything. That vile
school, consciously or unconsciously do not know, preparing the horrors of three years after ... and after being so grossly misrepresented by my teachers ... would you have felt an obligation not only not moral, but also civic, to demystify it all? "Maybe
know the history of the many massacres committed by military criminal, by industry, by the secret services in our contemporary history will help young people form a political consciousness and a critical sense. Enough to make them immune to the propaganda that just wants to steal consensus and engage in business of death as the war in Afghanistan, in which we are part of a coalition applying systematic torture - as in the prison in Bagram and secret prisons of NATO bases - and summary executions.
So who wanted and wants this war in Afghanistan that is costing us almost 2 million euro per day? Those who decide to spend more than € 600 million a year to keep soldiers in Afghanistan 3300, supported by 750 ground vehicles and 30 vehicles? As we will soon add another 700 soldiers to our quota? How many schools and hospitals could be built? Who are the Italian manufacturers of death and mutilation of selling weapons to make this war? Who are the Italians who are ex-generals at the top of these industries? What pressures and military industries on Parliament to obtain orders weapons and weapon systems? How to profit from these wars Finmeccanica, the Iveco-Fiat Oto Melara, Alenia Aeronautica and the banks that finance them? And how do so many Catholic associations to accept from these industries and gifts and benefits from these banks? Can a country like Italy for alleged economic failures reduces the number of beds in hospitals, freezes salaries, prisoners held in appalling and inhumane conditions, fire teachers, students per class increases to the number of 35, reduces the hours school, calmly accepts that an increasingly large citizens living in poverty and in poverty, engage in weapons and weapon systems dozens billion €? What will our well-being and peace JSF fighter-bombers that cost us 14 billion euro (as rebuild all the 'Abruzzo earthquake)? And the ships FREMO from € 5.7 billion? And the aircraft carrier Cavour - costing nearly 1.5 billion and the pursuit of which we waste an average of about 150,000 € per day - how to help build peace? And how is it possible that Parliament has allocated € 24 billion for defense in the 2010 budget?
person signing this appeal seeks only that in Italy you answer these questions.
meet the prime ministers of the past 10 years, defense ministers and MPs who have all approved the funding for this war.
say with honesty that this war is fought because Afghanistan is a strategic hub for control of energy, for the profit of some Italian industrial groups, for an international economic hegemony, a desire for power that is a neo-colonialism disguised intentions humanitarian and democratic, because they can never say with guns and violence. We do our
the prophetic words of a great Indian woman Arundhati Roy, written in that tragic October 7, 2001: "The bombing of Afghanistan is not revenge for New York and Washington. And 'yet another act of terrorism against the people of the world. Each innocent person that is killed must be addition, not subtracted, the budget of the horrific civilian deaths in New York and Washington. People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People are being killed. Governments are transformed and recomposed as heads of Hydra. They use the flag for the first shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to wrap the mangled corpses of their dead willing. "
Bishop Raffaele Nogaro , Bishop Emeritus of Caserta
P. Alex Zanotelli, P. Dominic Guarino - Comboni Missionaries - Health, Naples
Sister Elizabeth Pompey Sr. Daniel Serafin, Sister Anna Insone -
Comboni Missionaries Torre Annunziata
Giaretta Sister Rita, Sister Silvana Mutti, Sister Maria Coccia, Sr. Lorenza Dal Santo - Community Rut-Ursuline Sisters
Mario P. gunmen, Pierre P. Marks, Father Giorgio Ghezzi - Blessed Sacrament - Caserta
P . Anthony Bonato - Comboni Missionaries - Castel Volturno (Caserta)
Don Giorgio Pisano - Diocesan - Portici (Napoli)
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