We have a weapon of mass construction: The ability to think

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This is a beautiful piece by Mozambican writer Mia Couto.
Please read this and pass it along.

The original in Portuguese and an English translation I was able to find (it's 
a little shaky- for example, the last sentence should read "weapon of mass 
_construction_" rather than _destruction_- but you can get the main points):

http://www.lainsignia.org/2003/abril/int_043.htm

http://english.pravda.ru/world/2003/04/02/45426.html


"Letter to President Bush

Mr. President:

I'm a writer from a poor country. A country that was once in your black list. 
Millions of Mozambicans were unaware of what harm we had done to your country. 
We were small and poor: what threat could we pose? Our weapon of mass 
destruction was after all being used against us: it was famine and misery.

Some of us found it weird the criteria which led to our name being exposed 
while other nations were gaining from your sympathy. For instance, our neighbor 
- South Africa with their apartheid - blatantly violating human rights....




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marc rodrigues
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'one power.. is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.. if there is 
a country which has committed unspeakable atrocities, it is the United States 
of America' -Nelson Mandela