My son and the bombing of Iraq

In 1999, my son was also born, and Yugoslavia was bombed. And now 2003 - a son was born, and Iraq will be bombed again. I don’t even write “probably”, because everything is painfully repeated. Protest demonstrations around the world, and in America itself, the statements of our President and Minister of Foreign Affairs. And that the first and the second seem to have the same meaning.

Bush said quite definitely: "These speeches of people do not have any impact on the administration (USA - Auth.), It's just in the rules of our democratic state." Well, Russia is now a democratic state, and its people, including leaders, are free to say whatever they want. "And Vaska listens, yes ...". Here, our leaders turned out to be like their own citizens: when we criticize some decisions of the government, but still we can’t change anything, because they know better at the top. Maybe there is a connection here - whoever listens to his people more, the world listens to him more. Well, what a peaceful solution if the United States carried out demobilization, sent an armada to the Persian Gulf, said about the use of nuclear weapons against fortified bunkers, the Red Cross is preparing humanitarian aid, and in Russia too. They are tired of playing computer “war games”, in vain they made weapons.

There is a difference from the Yugoslav situation - France and Germany voted against the war, but Yugoslavia was bombed together. I think the explanation for this fact can be given as follows: to do political "business" (again, on someone else's grief), that is, to raise the rating of our own voters, they say, that's how independent we are, because these two countries obviously have economic interests in Iraq , no, and for them the presence or absence of bombings makes little difference. And so you will earn political points and you don’t have to spend money on a military operation.

The cynicism of the impending war never ceases to amaze. Look, North Korea itself announced that it was going to build a nuclear bomb, while experts in Iraq could not find anything for two months. But Iraq needs to be bombed - there is oil that America really needs. Let the children die, women who are already having a hard time, because Iraq has been subjected to sanctions for so many years, but AMERICA NEED OIL.

And we also have oil in Russia, and a lot. And why buy it, if you can conquer it, not now, until the Iraqi one is enough, and then, years later ...

In January, 10 boys and 4 girls were born in Opochka. Didn't the same thoughts visit the "Guardian Angel" of Russia as me? But while we are joking about Iraq in KVN. Remember:

• THIS is done at night, some are afraid of it, others really want it.

• Understood, we will bomb Iraq!

Before the Second World War, maybe in France or England, they also joked about the USSR like that. We later wrote that "the connivance of the Western European powers pushed Hitler to war." Iraq will have to blame the whole world. If there is anyone, of course.

Sergei KONSTANTINOV, 2003, January, Opochka, Pskov region.