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Bullets For Childrenby ~psamtik

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People i didn't write this, it was quoted from a paper, so stop acting like i'm behind this. Some of its very true, some of its not. It's just interesting to read.

In the business section of the San Francisco Chronicle of March 18, Kathleen Pender’s regular column was headed, “Schooling Iraqi Children.” This heading promised some good reading.

Sure enough, it did. She tells us how the compassionate U.S. government intends to spend
vast sums for educating Iraqi children. “Details are emerging at the same time California and other cash-strapped states are planning draconian cuts in education, health care and other services,” she reports. She suggests that our laid-off teachers learn Arabic and move to Iraq where the jobs will be.

The emerging details: Iraqi enrollment is to increase from 30 percent to 100 percent; books and other school supplies are to be provided to 4.1 million children; 25,000 schools will be revitalized—all within one year! The Pentagon planners are very clever.

If this sounds ambitious to you, just imagine accomplishing all of this with $100 million, which is our government’s estimated cost. This anticipated extravagance staggers the imagination: four million schoolbooks and desks; paper, pencils and chalk for four million students; fresh water, bathrooms and roofs for four million youngsters and their 250,000 teachers. All of this for twenty-five dollars each for the full year!

We all know what $25 is; it’s half a tank of gasoline. It is also 0.3 percent of what Americans pay for a student’s year of elementary education (and even that is half of what’s appropriate). But these days, President Bush and the newspapers deal in such monumental numbers that it is difficult to appreciate small numbers. Just consider how small—even microscopic—$100 million is as viewed by the State Department. $100 million runs the current war for half an hour or less.

$25 is sub-microscopic. This amount, which the U.S. State Department has allocated for a year’s education, is just a bit more than the cost of three .50 caliber machine gun bullets made with the infamous depleted uranium. An M2 machine gun fires $25’s worth of these armor piercing bullets in less than one half of one second; this is what a Pentagon desk jockey balances against a year’s education for an Iraqi child.

Is this a war for the Iraqi people? For liberty, justice and democracy? I don’t think so.

~k-Ice May 4, 2007

i like your message but i do have one query. did u take that picture ureself?. i searched "bullets" into devart and this picture and another picture came up...and they look REALLY similiar...not accusing u...just asking.

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~internethead Jul 6, 2004

very nice piece that really hits you when you look. i'm not gonna rant about the description, cos as you said you just got it from the paper. it's sorta true, but quite obviously biased.

~suhu May 21, 2004 Photographer

great work.. simple but great.. interesting text..

~willfire May 10, 2004 Hobbyist Digital Artist

wow another wow moment.

+watch

this is a deceptively simple image untill you think about it and the comment. very very well done.

not often i give two +fav to some one on the same day.

wil

!NebTheAlmighty Apr 29, 2004

So true, yet what's even more sad is I am half surprised that the current administration is doing anything about their education. "The question is, is are children learning?" - George W. Bush.

*xeoncat Apr 26, 2004 Professional Digital Artist

great great work

very interesting to read indeed

~Funnyboy Apr 24, 2004 Hobbyist Photographer

nice and clean

~equuleus Apr 24, 2004

hmm...an interesing peice for u, looks great very well composed, and great subject for it too.

I quite agree, and considering the US gov, is increasing Military expenses by BILLIONS a year, they should be able to find some more for Iraq

~54b Apr 24, 2004

Why do things always have to have alterior motives? Americans are so quick to scream 'conspiracy' with only tenuous details and snap assumptions. If this is some shaded attempt at conspiracy, what would you propose? George Bush swore to finish this operation, return stability to Iraq, and this is an attempt to make an ally of future Iraqis that will be raised in a civilized and educated world, instead being raised by paramilitants hell-bent on jihad and revolt. Keyword: Hate. We are trying to make an ally of Iraq, and if that has benefits that come with it, so be it.

~rusao Apr 23, 2004

yah.. first when you read the title you get mad.. but reading it explains it.. it's an awesome composition too.. something i would never venture doing

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