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A MODERN
PROPOSAL
For Providing the
Children of Poor People in Iraq with Clothing During the War
of the United
States of America and the United Kingdom of Britain on Iraq
It is a melancholy
object to those who view the news of the war on Iraq to see
the streets and the roads crowded with American and English
terrorists that open fire on people and destroy their
houses; And very rarely, when a reporter is lucky enough to
record the American and English riflemen rushing into the
houses of Iraqi people, do we have a chance to observe in
what sort of houses these poor people are residing.
During these 20
days of war on Iraq there were many protest demonstrations
in almost all countries of the world; out of the total
number of countries in the world if we only consider those
more important ones that have everyday big anti-war
demonstrations there will be more than 20 nations
that have thousands if protestors in at least five of their
major cities, who demonstrate their anger and disagreement
by walking in the streets in groups and shouting “Stop the
War!” or “We Want Peace!” and the most important of all, by
burning the U.S. flags; As to my own part, having turned to
my thoughts for hours upon this important subject, I have
found among these actions the last one - their burning of
the U.S. flag, grossly a mistake.
The number of people
in Iraq, being usually reckoned 20,000,000, of these
I calculate there are about 2,000,000 children under
the age of six or seven, from which I subtract 1,000,000
children whose parents are to some degrees able to provide
them with food and clothing; there remains 1,000,000
poor children that can not be provided for by means of none
of these methods currently in practice. I again subtract
90% of them for those children who are not much involved
in the problems of the war, either because they live in
out-of-reach places or because they have left their
hometowns for a temporary period of time. Now, if we drop
another 10,000 for those children who are either
killed by the American and English invaders or have fled
with their families to the neighboring countries, there
still remains at least 90,000 Iraqi children that are
the victims of a very terrible condition of living, with
bombs that come onto them and with no food or clothing
whatsoever. The question, therefore, is how this number
shall be helped, which under the present situation of
affairs is utterly impossible by all methods hitherto
proposed.
I shall now therefore
humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be
liable to the least objection. As I have already computed,
these days all around the world, there are at least 100
anti-U.S. demonstrations; if we consider that among the
thousands of protestors in each city only 2 U.S.
flags are burnt per day, each of which being sometimes in
its actual size (one meter in a half ) –though usually
larger than this and in some cases even as large as three
meters in two – the average size of a U.S. flag that is used
for burning at these protest demonstrations can be measured
as about two meters in one. Just keep it in mind that 200
pieces of such cloth are now being burnt every day during
the war on Iraq.
I have been assured by
a knowledgeable scientist that by the burning of this much
cloth, the amount of smoke which is every day added to the
air pollution of our planet is equal to the amount of smoke
that 5,000 automobiles produce per day. The burning of the
U.S. flag has also other disadvantages but as I have so long
digressed, I therefore shall return to my subject.
I do therefore humbly
offer my proposal to public consideration that the U.S.
flags that we are burning to show our hatred toward the U.S.
government shall instead contribute to the clothing of many
poor children in Iraq; I am assured by a tailor of my
acquaintance that with a 2 x 1 m. piece of cloth we
can make one shirt and a pair of trousers fit for a child of
six or seven and, according to what I have already computed,
every day we can properly provide 200 poor Iraqi
children with clothing only by the use of those U.S. flags
that we add to the pollution of the air by burning them a
considerable amount of smoke per day. And if this war on
Iraq , according to the many politicians who comment on the
question of this war, takes as long as 6 months
during these 200 or so days we can provide clothing
for approximately 40,000 Iraqi poor children, almost
50% of the total number of those who were seriously
endangered.
There are other
advantages that might be enumerated by this proposal; for
instance we can use the off-cuts of the U.S. flags as
bandages for those hundreds of wounded men and women in this
war-stricken country.
Some persons of a
desponding spirit are in great concern about the vast number
of those Iraqi people who hate the American government so
mush so that it is most probable that they will not let
themselves clothe their children in U.S. flags and I have
been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken
to ease a nation of so grievous an encumbrance.
For those people who are
so much against this ‘stars-and-strips’ design on these
flags I recommend that they can wash that off in one way or
the other, or they can cut the flags into such pieces that
do not show the designs on their children’s new clothing, or
in the case none of these solutions seems satisfactory they
can use the pieces of the U.S. flags as diapers for their
infant children, and even if this also distracts from their
dignity they can cut the U.S. flags into strips and as far
as there is no water in most Iraqi cities these days during
the war they can use these strips of the U.S. flags for
toilet papers. But I am not in the least pain upon that
matter, because it is very well known that poor Iraqi people
are every day getting murdered by the American and English
soldiers at such a rate that they can not be expected to be
worried about this sort of questions.
I can think of no one
objection that will probably be raised against this
proposal. I desire the reader will observe that I calculate
my proposal for the people of this specific country at this
special span of time as a fast and easy method that can be
very useful in this complicated situation of affairs.
After all I am not so
violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offers
proposed by
wise men, which shall be
found equally useful, cheap, easy and effectual. But before
something of that kind shall be advanced in contradiction to
my scheme, and offering a better, I desire those who dislike
my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an
answer, that they will first ask the Iraqi people themselves
whether they would not at the present situation think it a
good proposal in the manner I prescribed.
I profess, in the
sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal
interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work,
having no other motive than the public good of that specific
country; I have no interest in wearing that kind of clothes
at all; my wardrobe being full of fashionable clothes and my
youngest brother long past infancy.
Ali Azimi, April 8th,
2003
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