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Page 8B JHE HEHALD Wednesday April Arts and IdeaSr We have no interest in the people of the Middle East Herald Special The moment a war starts all predictions and forecasts will be up in the air In the last remain ing hours of peace on Jan 18 of this year the Herald printed an editorial with the title Dogs of War I do not remember the whole piece but I remember some sentences and one of them is this one If and when hostilities erupt the world as we know it will undergo traumatic Ideas and The Arts by John Sommer Hostilities erupted that very day to end only 40 days later with the defeat of Saddam Hus sein His enormous but old- fashioned army was no match for the modern technological might of the Americans and their allies Iraq was bombed mercilessly its utilities are ruined its bridges and large cities are destroyed In the liberated Kuwait the oil wells Saddam Husseins army set on fire will burn for years Nobody knows what the en vironmental damage will even be for Kuwait and Its neighbors But a great victory was won and Mr Bush who promised a new world order after the war had reason to con gratulate himself But even before the ceasefire was signed civil war broke out within Iraq The various tion groups against Saddam Hus the Kurds being only one them had believed with some justification that the Americans and their allies would now help them to oust the hated dictator At first they seemed to win out against Saddam Hussein but soon it became clear that Sad dam had been able to squirrel away a sufficient amount of his most loyal troops as well as ar maments to fight against his adversaries and to defeat them This fight against his own peo ple quickly grew into a bloody slaughter and the American soldiers had to stand idly by and watch the massacres without be ing allowed by their own leaders to intervene and save lives In a few short weeks Mr Bushs new world order has turn ed into a horrendous stampede of fleeing people trying to get away from a bloody villain who at the blink of an eye has become dear to the West again as if we never went to war against him The American President such a hot warrior in January now turned into an eager earning the wrath of his political friends like the columnist William Safire from the New York Times It seems the U S President isnt a man of principles after all but rather a man with double standards It took a massive media cam paign to push him into establishing sanctuaries for the Kurds and I find it difficult to free myself of the suspicion that he will abandon these people again should it be convenient for him The terrible truth is that we have no interest in the people of the Middle East and their pro blems with each other The only reason we are there is the oil Without oil our stupendously wasteful habits would quickly come to an end and our celebrated high living standard would collapse like a house of cards What can we here in Canada do to help the victims of Saddam Hussein and our appetite for oil We should let our readers know that we are willing to live with these people here in our country and to share it with them if they want to come If we can welcome people from Hungary and Poland and Viet nam and China and from many other trouble spots in the world we can welcome these poor persecuted wretches from Iraq Let us organize an air lift to bring them over before the great chief in Washington changes his mind again Compassion We are always talking about it but rarely act on it This is a time to be compas sionate Canada is a huge country with a small population of under 30 million people The waves of immigrants that have come to Canadas shores for hundreds of years havemadeusjnch All free traders should also welcome the free movement of people This is not a country of two founding nations anymore if it ever was that Canada is on the way to becoming a new type of country a country where all the people of the world live together and work together finding out that it is their humanity that unites them How small are the ethnic and religious differences once you realize that we are all related with each other if you follow your Lome Geddes exhibition Photographic Art Images by of Georgetown who has concentrated on photographing the natural beauty of Ontarios Niagara Escarp ment Bruce Trail Country will now be shown at The Cliff Swallow Fine Art Gallery The gallery is located at Mono Centre near the entrance to the Mono Cliffs Provincial Park where many people go to hike the Bruce Trail and enjoy the natural beauty of the Escarpment This makes an ideal arrangement says Linda McLaren the manager of the gallery has won ribbons in photography competitions with the Federation of Ontario Naturalists and The Bruce Trail Association In one competition he won three of six ribbons presented His slide show titled Competitions in Light and Color along Ontarios Niagara Escarp ment Bruce Trail Country has been praised wherever shown The Niagara Escarpment Com mission and the Bruce Trail Association have used his pic hires in their publications Now he wants his Photo Art to play a part toward awareness that the natural beauty that is here now for us to enjoy should be protected for future genera tions The Gallery is open noon to six daily except Tuesday and Wednesday To get there turn east off Highway at Camilla on to the 15th Sideroad which leads directly to Mono Centre Ten minutes north of Orangeville Telephone 9424390 Lome Geddes VALUABLE PET JUNCTION COUPON 10 OFF BATH OR CLIP AT PET JUNCTION 9 JAMES STREET GEORGETOWN All Breed Grooming and Supplies Cats Welcome 8737990 family tree back a few thousand years The moment you start a war in somebodys backyard you become responsible for these peo ple when things go wrong The leaders who pushed us into this war might now want to be free from this responsibility If we want to keep our honor we should keep them to the honorable path IF THE SHOE FITS But if not you should have shopped in HALTON HILLS We all know that 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