jd@homxc.att.com (John A Dinardo) (06/25/91)
[repeat of a March posting to Usenet]:
So far, I have mailed the following letter to about ninety church
pastors, in several Congressional districts, whom I identified from
the yellow pages of telephone directories. I hope that you will mail
this appeal, or a similar one, to religious or secular persons in
your locale whom you think might have the human compassion to
contact their Congressperson and insist that our government render
life-saving assistance from the people of the United States to
the ravaged and imperiled people of Iraq.
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Dear Christian Pastor,
On the evening of March 7th, WBAI-FM, 99.5 in New York City,
reported that the people of Iraq are now facing contagions of
typhoid, meningitis and cholera due to the bombing of that nation's
water, sewage and power generating systems by President Bush. The
report states that these diseases are growing to epidemic proportions,
and this means that many thousands of innocent human beings,
mainly women, children and old people, will be killed as an indirect
result of our government's merciless blitzkrieg upon life-essential
civilian facilities. Among the mangled carnage lie many barely alive
people. It is not too late to save them with desperately needed
medical supplies and other assistance. You must understand that with
each minute of delay, injured, diseased and starving children of God
are lapsing into death, as our nation's crimes against humanity
pile up in what can be accurately termed a mountain of corpses.
The Bush Administration, rather than facilitating relief, has been
obstructing it. So our major challenge, at this moment, is to
bring to bear substantial public humanitarian pressure upon our
Congress to mobilize immediate relief during this brief interlude
of opportunity for all true followers of Christ. He would require
us to act with the utmost urgency.
Please write to Your Congressperson
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
For verification of our government's obstruction of relief, please
contact the multi-faith organization, Fellowship of Reconciliation,
P.O. Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960, (914) 358-4601.
As a pastor for Christ, you can have an extraordinary impact upon
your Congressperson because you represent so many of his Christian
constituents.
With High Regards,
John DiNardo